Centrality-is proficiency alignment and workgroup performance

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1063-1078

  Kane, Gerald C ^a   Borgatti, Stephen P ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrality; Collective use; Healthcare delivery; IS proficiency; Multilevel analysis; Multimodal networks; Performance; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CENTRALITY; COLLECTIVE USE; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTIMODAL NETWORK; PERFORMANCE;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 81355153648     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41409973     Document Type: Article

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