Who collaborates successfully? Prior experience reduces collaboration barriers in distributed interdisciplinary research

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 437-446

  Cummings, Jonathon N ^a   Kiesler, Sara ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Distributed work; Interdisciplinary; R D; Team; Virtual organization

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; DISTRIBUTED PROJECTS; DISTRIBUTED WORK; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950831805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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