Knowledge work productivity in distributed teams

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 533-546

  Bosch Sijtsema, Petra M ^a   Ruohomäki, Virpi ^b   Vartiainen, Matti ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Productivity rate; Remote workers; Team working

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149108432     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270910997178     Document Type: Article

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