A Longitudinal Field Study of Training Practices in a Collaborative Application Environment

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 257-281

  Kang, David ^a   Santhanam, Radhika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative applications; End user computing; End user training

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

END-USER COMPUTING; END-USER TRAINING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 1242287742     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2003.11045776     Document Type: Article

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