Coordination structures and system restrictiveness in Distributed Group Support Systems

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 379-404

  Kim, Youngjin ^a   Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^b   Turoff, Murray ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Coordination structure; Distributed group support systems; Individual and group decision making; Leadership; System restrictiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036390755     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020492305910     Document Type: Article

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