Coordination, Learning, and Innovation: The Organizational Roles of e-collaboration and their Impacts

International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 53-70

  Fink, Lior ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

business environment; conceptual study; electronic collaboration; organizational impacts; organizational innovation; organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001733669     PISSN: 15483673     EISSN: 15483681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jec.2007070104     Document Type: Article

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