Expertise, Extraversion and Group Interaction Styles as Performance Indicators in Virtual Teams

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Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-64

  Balthazard, Pierre ^a   Potter, Richard E ^b   Warren, John ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual Performance; Expertise; Extraversion; Group Interaction Styles; Task Performance; Virtual Teams; Big Five Personality Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645401807     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/968464.968469     Document Type: Article

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