MEDIA RICHNESS THEORY AND NEW ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION MEDIA: A STUDY OF VOICE MAIL AND ELECTRONIC MAIL

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1992

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 91-105

  El Shinnawy, Maha M ^a   Markus, M Lynne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

'CURRENT; COMMUNICATION MEDIA; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; MEDIA RICHNESS THEORY; NEW MEDIA; SOCIAL DIMENSIONS; UNCERTAINTY; VOICE MAIL;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 85139218782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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