The organizational implementation of an electronic meeting system: An analysis of the innovation process

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1990, Pages 361-367

  George, Joey F ^a   Valacich, Joseph S ^a   Nunamaker, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative work; Electronic Meeting Systems; Implementation

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COOPERATIVE WORKS; ELECTRONIC MEETING SYSTEMS; IMPLEMENTATION; INNOVATION PROCESS; INNOVATIVE METHOD; ORGANIZATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION; UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT; WORK ORGANIZATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 85051406366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/97243.97308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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