Leadership and Performance in Virtual Teams: Exploring Brokerage in Electronic Communication

International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 31-52

  Glückler, Johannes ^a   Schrott, Gregor ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

leadership; mobile communication; performance; social network analysis; structural hole theory; virtual team

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001783801     PISSN: 15483673     EISSN: 15483681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jec.2007070103     Document Type: Article

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