ASYNCHRONOUS GROUPWARE SUPPORT EFFECTS ON PROCESS IMPROVEMENT GROUPS: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 339-355

  Kock, Nereu F ^a   McQueen, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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Indexed keywords

GROUPWARE;

ACTION RESEARCH; CONFERENCING SYSTEMS; FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS; NEW ZEALAND; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PROCESS REDESIGN; RESEARCH APPROACH; RESEARCH DATA; RESEARCH STUDIES; SUPPORTS EFFECTS;

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EID: 0347322744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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