Access to information in connective and communal transactive memory systems

Communication Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-155

  Yuan, Y Connie ^a   Fulk, Janet ^b   Monge, Peter R ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Social influence; Transactive memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047220400     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650206298067     Document Type: Article

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