Coordinating expertise among emergent groups responding to disasters

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-161

  Majchrzak, Ann ^a   Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L ^b   Hollingshead, Andrea B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinating catastrophes; Emergence; Tranactive memory systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847021166     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0228     Document Type: Article

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