Interpersonal traits, complementarity, and trust in virtual collaboration

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 115-138

  Brown, Houghton G ^a   Poole, Marshall Scott ^b   Rodgers, Thomas L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer mediated collaboration; Interpersonal traits; Technology acceptance; Telemedicine; Trust; Virtual collaboration; Virtual teams; Virtual trust

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISTANCE EDUCATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; TELEMEDICINE;

COMPUTER MEDIATED COLLABORATION; INTERPERSONAL CIRCUMPLEX MODEL; INTERPERSONAL TRAITS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; TRUST; VIRTUAL COLLABORATION; VIRTUAL TEAMS; VIRTUAL TRUST;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 3142756979     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2004.11045785     Document Type: Article

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