Groupware adoption in a distributed organization: Transporting and transforming technology through social worlds

Information and Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 297-327

  Mark, Gloria ^a   Poltrock, Steven ^b  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data conferencing; Diffusion of innovation; Distributed teams; Empirical study; Groupware adoption; Social worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644313272     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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