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Emerging e-collaboration concepts and applications

"This book presents a state-of-the-art discussion of conceptual and applied e-collaboration issues. Business organizations increasingly rely on collaborative processes to maintain their competitiveness. E-collaboration technologies are at the source of something that underlies most business, po...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Kock, Ned F., 1964-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
Subjects:
Business enterprises > Computer networks.
Business networks.
Computer networks.
Communication > Technological innovations.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Section I: Conceptual and methodological issues. 1. A discussion of key conceptual elements of e-collaboration / Ned Kock
  • 2. Featuring technology in studies of e-collaboration technology effects / M. Markus
  • 3. Research challenges for integration of e-collaboration technologies / Bjørn Munkvold, Ilze Zigurs
  • 4. Collaborative sensemaking support / John Nosek
  • 5. Action research and its use in e-collaboration inquiry / Ned Kock.
  • Section II: Applied research and challenges. 6. The role of structured conflict and consensus approaches invirtual team strategic decision making / Jerry Fjermestad
  • 7. E-Collaboration in distributed requirements determination / Roberto Evaristo, Mary Watson-Manheim, Jorge Audy
  • 8. Innovation diffusion and e-collaboration / Shaila Miranda, Pamela Carter
  • 9. Internet-based customer collaboration / Ulrike Schultze, Anita Bhappu
  • 10. Patterns in electronic brainstorming / Alan Dennis, Alain Pinsonneault, Kelly McNamara Hilmer, Henri Barki, Brent Gallupe, Mark Huber, François Bellavance.
  • Section III: Research syntheses and debate. 11. Are we genetical maladapted for e-collaboration? / Ned Kock, Donald Hantula
  • 12. Propositions for cognitive support of e-collaboration / C. Smith, Stephen Hayne
  • 13. A meta-analysis of group size effects in electronic brainstorming / Alan Dennis, Michael Williams
  • 14. Virtual teams / Alain Pinsonneault, Olivier Caya
  • 15. Deceptive communication in e-collaboration / Joey George, Kent Marett
  • About the authors
  • Index.

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