Seeing remote team members as leaders: A study of US-Scandinavian teams

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-94

  Sarker, Saonee ^a   Sarker, Suprateek ^a   Schneider, Christopher ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer mediated communication; Information systems; information systems development teams; Leader emergence; Leadership; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COLLABORATION; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DEVELOPMENT ABILITY; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT TEAM; LEADER EMERGENCE; LEADERSHIP; TEAM MEMBERS; VIRTUAL TEAM;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 62349120592     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2008.2007871     Document Type: Article

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