The contingent impact of contextualization on computer-mediated collaboration

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-279

  Katz, Adi ^a   Te'eni, Dov ^b  

^a Industrial Engineering and Management Department   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive behavior; CMC; Collaboration; Communication complexity; Contextualization; ICT design; Mutual understanding; Organizational communication; Performance; Shared terminology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247484989     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0237     Document Type: Article

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