USING COMMUNICATION NORMS FOR COORDINATION: EVIDENCE FROM A DISTRIBUTED TEAM

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 115-128

  Ghosh, Tanu ^a   Yates, Joanne ^a   Orlikowski, Wanda J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; distributed teams; multiple media; norms; temporal patterns; virtual work

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MULTIPLE MEDIUM; NORM; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; TEAM MEMBERS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; VIRTUAL WORKS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85138732475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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