Supporting virtual team-building with a GSS: An empirical investigation

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 359-367

  Huang, Wayne W ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^b   Watson, Richard T ^c   Tan, Bernard C Y ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal setting; Group support systems; Team building; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

VIRTUAL TEAMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037208426     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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