E-collaboration: The reality of virtuality

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 219-230

  Rutkowski, Anne F ^a   Vogel, Douglas R ^b   Van Genuchten, Michiel ^c   Bemelmans, Theo M A ^c   Favier, Marc ^d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Cross cultural communication; Culture; E collaboration; Face to face communication; Group support systems; Information communication technologies (ICTs); Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRONIC MAIL; ONLINE CONFERENCING; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0036906396     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2002.805147     Document Type: Article

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