Collaborative research across disciplinary and organizational boundaries

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 703-722

  Cummings, Jonathan N ^a   Kiesler, Sara ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed work; Geographic dispersion; Innovation; Multidisciplinary; Organizational boundaries; Project size; Project work; Scientific collaboration; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144529618     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312705055535     Document Type: Review

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