Casting the net: A multimodal network perspective on user-system interactions

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-272

  Kane, Gerald C ^a   Alavi, Maryam ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrality; Group level; Indirect use; Information use; IS use; Multimodal networks; Performance; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION USE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CENTRALITY; GROUP LEVEL; INDIRECT USE; MULTIMODAL NETWORK; PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 61349191720     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1070.0158     Document Type: Article

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