Contextual constraints in media choice: Beyond information richness

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 657-670

  Palvia, Prashant ^a   Pinjani, Praveen ^a,b   Cannoy, Sherrie ^a,c   Jacks, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Confidentiality; Contextual constraints; Information integrity; Information richness; Media choice; Social interaction; Urgency

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS; INFORMATION INTEGRITY; INFORMATION RICHNESS; MEDIA CHOICE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; URGENCY;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79955916474     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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