New product development decision-making effectiveness: Comparing individuals, face-to-face teams, and virtual teams

Decision Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 575-600

  Schmidt, Jeffrey B ^a   Montoya Weiss, Mitzi M ^b   Massey, Anne P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication systems; Multivariate statistics; Product development; Product planning; Project management; Strategic decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039246823     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2001.tb00973.x     Document Type: Article

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