Organizational Resilience and Using Information and Communication Technologies to Rebuild Communication Structures

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-263

  Chewning, Lisa V ^a   Lai, Chih Hui ^b   Doerfel, Marya L ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer mediated communication; organizational change; organizational communication; organizational structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876098125     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318912465815     Document Type: Article

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