Implications of space and time for distributed work: An interpretive study of US-Norwegian systems development teams

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-20

  Sarker, Suprateek ^a   Sahay, Sundeep ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 1842587106     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000485     Document Type: Article

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