Improving group communication outcomes with collaborative software: The impact of group size, media richness, and social presence

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Roberts, Tom L ^a   Lowry, Paul Benjamin ^b   Cheney, Paul H ^c   Hightower, Ross T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; GROUP COMMUNICATION; MEDIA RICHNESS; PROJECT TEAMS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749641692     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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