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Book SynopsisPresents research on technology as either a tool or context for groups and teams. This volume covers management issues from two critical perspectives: groups and teams in evolving high-tech contexts; and leading edge research on technology for communication and knowledge management within groups and teams.
Table of ContentsList of contributors. Preface (T.L. Griffith). Teams and technology: interactions over time (G. DeSanctis et al.). Learning new technical and interpersonal routines in operating room teams: the case of minimally invasive cardiac surgery (A.C. Edmondson et al.). Substitutes for socialization and exocentric teams (P.S. Goodman, J.M. Wilson). Boundary instances in heterogeneous engineering teams: trouble management in the dram manufacturing process (J.Y. Kim, J.L. King). New organization forms and workgroups (H.C. Lucas Jr., R. Garud). Multiple system interfaces and task-based conflict: technological and human factors in control crew performance (M.J. Waller, K.A. Jehn). The impact of mobile computing on work groups (D.F. Caldwell, J.L. Koch). Truth and lying in computer-mediated groups (A.B. Hollingshead). Anonymity and consensus in computer-supported group decision making (P.L. McLeod). Technologies of status management: status dynamics in e-mail communications (D.A. Owens et al.). Media selection and identification in distributed groups: the potential cost of "rich" media (M.G. Pratt et al.). Knowledge acquisition in virtual teams (S.G. Straus, F. Olivera). Groups and technology: current themes and future directions (L. Argote).
