A model to develop effective virtual teams

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1031-1045

  Lin, Chad ^a   Standing, Craig ^b   Liu, Ying Chieh ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Communication; Performance; Satisfaction; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

COHESION; COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE; SATISFACTION; VIRTUAL TEAMS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 53349102617     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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