Trust Development in Globally Distributed Collaboration: A Case of U.S. and Chinese Mixed Teams

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 978-1007

  Cheng, Xusen ^a   Fu, Shixuan ^a   Druckenmiller, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

COLLABORATION ENGINEERING; DESIGN SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION; DYNAMIC PROCESS; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS; NOCV1; TREATMENT DESIGN; TREATMENT GROUP;

SPEED CONTROL;

EID: 85012155389     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: 1557928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2016.1267521     Document Type: Article

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