Are all distributed teams the same?: Differentiating between temporary and ongoing distributed teams

Small Group Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 662-700

  Saunders, Carol Stoak ^a   Ahuja, Manju K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer mediated communication; Short and long term outcomes; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750856073     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496406294323     Document Type: Article

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