E-collaboration systems in virtual organizations - Recommendations for tool support based on genre analysis

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2634-2643

  Riemer, Kai ^a   Vehring, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperation systems; E collaboration; Genre analysis; Virtual organization

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY APPROACH; COMMUNICATION PRACTICES; E-COLLABORATION; GENRE ANALYSIS; GROUP LEVEL; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; SHORT-TERM PROJECTS; TOOL SUPPORT; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION; WORK PRACTICES;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAKES;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 77951834595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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