UNDERSTANDING ANTECEDENTS TO CONFLICT IN GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TEAMS1

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 415-424

  Hinds, Pamela J ^a   Mortensen, Mark ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE;

COORDINATION PROBLEMS; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; FIELD STUDIES; GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GROUP MEMBERS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH TEAMS; TASK CONFLICTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84855989915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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