Collaboration 'engineerability'

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 301-321

  Kolfschoten, Gwendolyn L ^a   de Vreede, Gert Jan ^a,b   Briggs, Robert O ^b   Sol, Henk G ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collaboration engineering; Collaboration process design; Collaboration support; Facilitation; Patterns; ThinkLets

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952741034     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-010-9192-8     Document Type: Article

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