Working Alone Together: Coworking as Emergent Collaborative Activity

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 399-441

  Spinuzzi, Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

activity theory; coworking; knowledge work; telecommuting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866423129     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651912444070     Document Type: Article

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