A longitudinal study of virtual teamwork with and without group support systems

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 703-719

  Hung, Shin Yuan ^a,c   Dai, Chuan I ^a   Chang, Chia Ming ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TATUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Information Systems ^*

^d TaTung Institute of Commerce and Technology

Author keywords

Field experiment; Group support systems; GSS; Information systems evaluation; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949083796     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2007.014990     Document Type: Article

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