Collaborative elasticity and breakdowns in high reliability organizations: Contributions from distributed cognition and collective mind theory

Cognition, Technology and Work

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-140

  Van Fenema, Paul C ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaborative elasticity; Collective mind; Coordination breakdown; Distributed cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944495505     PISSN: 14355558     EISSN: 14355566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0181-7     Document Type: Review

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