Out of Sight, Out of Sync: Understanding Conflict in Distributed Teams

Organization Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Hinds, Pamela J ^a   Bailey, Diane E ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Distributed Teams; Distributed Work; Virtual Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 0942300504     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.6.615.24872     Document Type: Article

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