Tension between perceived collocation and actual geographic distribution in project teams

AI and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-192

  Fruchter, Renate ^a   Bosch Sijtsema, Petra ^b   Ruohomäki, Virpi ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collocation; Global teamwork; ICT; Interaction; Multi teaming; Virtuality; Work place and space

Indexed keywords

COLLOCATION; GLOBAL TEAMWORK; ICT; INTERACTION; MULTI-TEAMING; VIRTUALITY; WORK PLACE;

BRICK; MOBILE DEVICES; SURVEYS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79955722041     PISSN: 09515666     EISSN: 14355655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-009-0254-x     Document Type: Article

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