Spatial and temporal boundaries in global teams: Distinguishing where you work from when you work

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 236, Issue , 2007, Pages 85-98

  Cummings, Jonathon N ^a   Espinosa, J Alberto ^b   Pickering, Cynthia K ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCE; GLOBAL TEAMS; INSTANT MESSENGERS; REAL TIME INTERACTIONS; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; TEAM MEMBERS; WEB SOFTWARE;

SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

EID: 35148814010     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73025-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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