Situation invisibility and attribution in distributed collaborations

Journal of Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 525-546

  Cramton, Catherine Durnell ^a   Orvis, Kara L ^b   Wilson, Jeanne M ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APTIMA INC   (United States)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Dispersed teams; Distributed teams; Teams; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447618644     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206307302549     Document Type: Article

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