A framework to analyze knowledge work in distributed teams

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 275-307

  Bosch Sijtsema, Petra M ^a   Fruchter, Renate ^b   Vartiainen, Matti ^c   Ruohomäki, Virpi ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

distributed collaboration; knowledge work; organization context; task; team structure; team work processes; workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955735835     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601111403625     Document Type: Article

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