Topic effects on process gains and losses in electronic meetings

Information Resources Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Gu, Linwu ^a   Aiken, Milam ^b   Wang, Jianfeng ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Electronic meeting; Interest; Knowledge; Self efficacy; Task; Topic effects

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT;

AMBIGUITY; ELECTRONIC MEETING; INTEREST; KNOWLEDGE; SELF EFFICACY; TASK; TOPIC EFFECTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 70249150791     PISSN: 10401628     EISSN: 15337979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/irmj.2007100101     Document Type: Article

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