The impact of knowledge coordination on virtual team performance over time

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 783-808

  Kanawattanachai, Prasert ^a   Yoo, Youngjin ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Repeated measures; Temporality; Transactive memory; Trust; Virtual team

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; WEB SERVICES;

ELECTRONIC MEDIA; KNOWLEDGE COORDINATION; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEMS (TMS); VIRTUAL TEAM;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 38549134028     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148820     Document Type: Article

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