Where did we turn wrong? Unpacking the effect of culture and technology on attributions of team performance

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 383-391

  Diamant, E Ilana ^a   Fussell, Susan R ^b   Lo, Fen Ly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution processes; Coordination mechanisms; Cross cultural communication; CSCW; Distributed work; Empirical studies; Intellectual teamwork

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION MECHANISMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED WORK; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTELLECTUAL TEAMWORK;

GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 77950797977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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