Structures that work: Social structure, work structure and coordination ease in geographically distributed teams

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 343-352

  Hinds, Pamela ^a   McGrath, Cathleen ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed teams; Global teams; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GLOBAL TEAMS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547159254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180875.1180928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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