Invisible Social Infrastructures to Facilitate Time-pressed Distributed Organizing

Time & Society

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 341-360

  Van Fenema, Paul C ^a   Räisänen, Christine ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

distributed organization; infrastructures; organizational communication; time constraints; time space

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644463830     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X05055144     Document Type: Article

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