Group norms, media preferences, and group meeting success: A longitudinal study

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 645-655

  Guo, Zixiu ^a   Tan, Felix B ^b   Turner, Tim ^c   Xu, Huizhong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication (CMC); Group meeting success; Group norms; Longitudinal research methods; Partial least squares (PLS)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; GROUP MEMBERS; LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; TECHNOLOGY USE;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77955231903     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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