An investigation of the influence of national culture and group support systems on group processes and outcomes

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Reinig, B A ^a   Mejias, R J ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUPWARE; REENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS AND CASE STUDIES; GROUP PROCESS; GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HIGH POWER; HONG-KONG; INTELLIGENCE GATHERING; NATIONAL CULTURES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84969528799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1173774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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