Activating and perpetuating virtual teams: Now that we're mobile, where do we go?

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-34

  Baskerville, Richard ^a   Nandhakumar, Joe ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face to face interaction; Mobile computing; Online team working; Online teamwork; Trust; Ubiquitous computing; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMPUTING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; ONLINE TEAM WORKING; VIRTUAL TEAMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34047113868     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2006.890849     Document Type: Article

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