Media Effects on Group Collaboration: An Empirical Examination in an Ethical Decision-Making Context

Decision Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 887-931

  Sarker, Saonee ^a   Sarker, Suprateek ^a   Chatterjee, Sutirtha ^b   Valacich, Joseph S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Group dynamics; Group team decision making; Laboratory experiments; Team effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649579492     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2010.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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