Information "Bridging" in a global organization

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, CASCON '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 346-355

  Milewski, Allen E ^a   Tremaine, Marilyn ^b   Egan, Richard ^c   Zhang, Suling ^c   Köbler, Felix ^d   O'Sullivan, Patrick ^e  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION; CULTURAL FACTORS; GLOBAL ORGANIZATION; INTERVIEW STUDY; SYNCHRONOUS INFORMATION; TIME ZONES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77953629506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321211.1321258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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