Should I stay or should I go? Worker commitment to virtual organizations

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fang, Yulin ^a   Neufeld, Derrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE NETWORK; TEMPORAL BOUNDARIES; THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPEN SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL CORPORATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 33749614915     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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