Conceptualizing and measuring the virtuality of teams

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-295

  Schweitzer, Linda ^a   Duxbury, Linda ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed teams; Teams; Virtual teams; Virtuality

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION TOOL; DEGREE OF SEPARATION; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; HIGHER-DEGREE; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; TEAM INTERACTION; TEAMS; TECHNOLOGY-BASED; THREE DIMENSIONS; VIRTUAL TEAM; VIRTUALITY; WORK TIME;

MANAGEMENT; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 80155135028     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2009.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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