Your time zone or mine? : A study of globally time zone-shifted collaboration

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 235-244

  Tang, John C ^a   Zhao, Chen ^a   Cao, Xiang ^a   Inkpen, Kori ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed teams; Empirical study; Global time zones; Global work; Time shifted collaboration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL TIME; GLOBAL WORK; TIME-SHIFTED COLLABORATION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 79955131866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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