The strength of virtuality in teams: Social capital built on 'weak ties'

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dixon, Keith ^a   Panteli, Niki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED INTERACTIONS; VIRTUAL TEAMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 39749108740     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2007.556     Document Type: Conference Paper

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