How virtual teams use their virtual workspace to coordinate knowledge

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Malhotra, Arvind ^a   Majchrzak, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Human factors; Performance; Presence awareness; Situational awareness; Task awareness; Tool categories; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE; PRESENCE AWARENESS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TASK AWARENESS; VIRTUAL TEAM;

COMMERCE; DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84859705609     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2151163.2151169     Document Type: Review

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