Teams: Virtualness and Media Choice

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-48

  Palmer, Jonathan W ^a   Speier, Cheri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Communication; Media choice; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039034014     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10864415.1998.11518326     Document Type: Article

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