The impact of communication medium on virtual team group process

Information Resources Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-17

  Andres, Hayward P ^a,b  

^a N Carolina AandT State University   (United States)

^b Management Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer mediated communication; Group process; Information exchange; Process satisfaction; Team productivity; Videoconferenceing; Virtual team

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

COLLABORATION; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; GROUP PROCESS; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; PROCESS SATISFACTION; TEAM PRODUCTIVITY; VIRTUAL TEAM;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 33745622410     PISSN: 10401628     EISSN: 10401628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/irmj.2006040101     Document Type: Article

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