Leadership roles, socioemotional communication strategies, and technology use of Irish and US students in virtual teams

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-101

  Flammia, Madelyn ^a   Cleary, Yvonne ^b   Slattery, Darina M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Communication strategies; Technology use; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMMUNICATION STRATEGY; COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY; GLOBAL VIRTUAL TEAMS; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; STRATEGY USE; TEAM MEMBERS; TECHNOLOGY USE; VIRTUAL COLLABORATION; VIRTUAL TEAM;

LIME;

EID: 77952900964     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2010.2046088     Document Type: Article

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