Cocreating understanding and value in distributed work: How members of onsite and offshore vendor teams give, make, demand, and break sense

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 227-255

  Vlaar, Paul W L ^a   Van Fenema, Paul C ^b   Tiwari, Vinay ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS DEFENCE ACADEMY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Information systems development; ISD; Offshore; Sensebreaking; Sensedemanding; Sensegiving; Sensemaking; Social cognition; Understanding; Value creation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SENSE DEMANDING; SOCIAL COGNITION; VALUE CREATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 44449119409     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148839     Document Type: Article

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