Trust in Virtual Teams: Solved or Still a Mystery?

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 61-83

  Mitchell, Alanah ^a   Zigurs, Ilze ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration technology; Computer mediated groups; Distributed teams; Group task; Trust; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952965247     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1592401.1592407     Document Type: Article

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