The role of writing in Distributed collaboration

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1391-1413

  Fayard, Anne Laure ^a   Metiu, Anca ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Dialogical challenges; Distributed collaboration; Historical perspective; Knowledge development; Qualitative methods; Written communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907579144     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0893     Document Type: Article

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