COORDINATION THEORY: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 120-138

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Rubleske, Joseph ^a   Howison, James ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination Theory; Group Work; HCI; Process Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85139653240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315703619-15     Document Type: Chapter

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