HOW DO INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES RESHAPE WORK? EVIDENCE FROM THE RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY1

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 612-617

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Sawyer, Steve ^b   Wigand, Rolf ^a   Allbritton, Marcel ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination theory; disintermediation; Electronic commerce; fieldwork; social capital; survey; transaction cost

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HOUSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

COORDINATION THEORY; DISINTERMEDIATION; FIELDWORK; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; REAL ESTATE AGENTS; REAL ESTATE INDUSTRIES; SOCIAL CAPITALS; TECHNOLOGY USE; TRANSACTION COST; WORK LIFE;

SURVEYS;

EID: 85044500248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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