Using an Adapted Grounded Theory Approach for Inductive Theory Building About Virtual Team Development

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Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 38-56

  Barker, Suprateek ^a   Lau, Francis ^b   Sahay, Sundeep ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coding; Grounded theory; Interpretive; Qualitative methodology; Virtual team development

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642542168     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/506740.506745     Document Type: Article

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