Distance, ambiguity and appropriation: Structures affording impression management in a collocated organization
Abstract: Communication and collaboration technologies have recently given rise to unprecedented flexibility in work arrangements, including telecommuting and virtual teams with geographically distributed participants. Much research has consisted of comparing distant and collocated teams, arguing th...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 1028 - 1036 |
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Elsevier B.V.
May2012
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