Message equivocality, media selection, and manager performance: Implications for information systems

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 355-366

  Daft, Richard L ^a   Lengel, Robert H ^b   Trevino, Linda Klebe ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication media; Computing milieux; Information processing; Information systems; Managerial performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249120307     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/248682     Document Type: Article

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