Undergraduate management students' perceptions of what makes a successful virtual group

Education and Training

Volumn 54, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 167-179

  Gapp, Rod ^a   Fisher, Ron ^a,b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Group work; Internet; Learning enhancement; Lexical analysis; Management education; Undergraduates; Virtual groups; Virtual learning; Virtual learning environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859498963     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400911211210279     Document Type: Article

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