The Influence of Social Categories and Interpersonal Behaviors on Future Intentions and Attitudes to Form Subgroups in Virtual Teams

Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 333-352

  Yilmaz, Gamze ^a   Peña, Jorge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computer mediated communication; social identity model of deindividuation effects; social information processing theory; subgroups; virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894363885     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650212443696     Document Type: Article

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