Understanding coordination in IT project-based environments: An examination of team cognition and virtual team efficacy

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Keith, Mark ^a   Demirkan, Haluk ^a   Goul, Michael ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES; CRITICAL FACTORS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; IT PROJECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PROJECT COORDINATIONS; PROJECT SUCCESS; PROJECT TEAMS; PROJECT-BASED; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TASK ENVIRONMENTS; TEAM MEMBERS; VIRTUAL TEAMS; WEB 2.0;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 78650760211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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