COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGIES, TASKS, AND CONTEXTS: Evolution and Opportunity

Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 143-169

  Zigurs, Ilze ^b   Munkvold, Bjørn Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Collaboration Task; Collaboration Technology; Group Support Systems; Virtual Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 85139660585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315703626-16     Document Type: Chapter

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