Project characteristics and group communication: An investigation

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 84-98

  Roberts, Tom L ^a   Cheney, Paul H ^b   Sweeney, Paul D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gatekeeping; Group communication; Information sharing; Project complexity; Project group

Indexed keywords

BLUEPRINTS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; HTML; INFORMATION THEORY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; WEBSITES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

GROUP GATEKEEPING; GROUP INFORMATION SHARING; PROJECT GROUP COMMUNICATION; TECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 0036611210     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2002.1003690     Document Type: Article

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