"Is it already 4 a.m. in your time zone?": Focus immersion and temporal dissociation in virtual teams

Small Group Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-129

  Rutkowski, Anne Françoise ^a   Saunders, Carol ^b   Vogel, Douglas ^c   Van Genuchten, Michiel ^d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Focus immersion; ICT; Subjective performance; Temporal dissociation; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846562957     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496406297042     Document Type: Article

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