A linguistic analysis of group support systems interactions for uncovering social realities of organizations

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kuo, Feng Yang ^a   Yin, Chun Po ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Group dynamic; Group support systems; Linguistic analysis; Speech act theory

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC COLLABORATIONS; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP SIZE; GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; PRACTICAL REASONING; SOCIAL REALITY; SPEECH ACT THEORY; SPEECH ACTS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GROUP THEORY; GROUPWARE; LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 82455182687     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1929916.1929919     Document Type: Article

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