Virtual Teams: A Review of Current Literature and Directions for Future Research

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-36

  Powell, Anne ^a   Piccoli, Gabriele ^b   Ives, Blake ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Mediated Communication; Distributed Collaborative Work; IS teams; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 9744279294     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/968464.968467     Document Type: Article

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