Encountering electronic work groups: a transaction costs perspective
Published 1 January 1988Open access
Claudio Ciborra, Margrethe H. Olson
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It is argued that cooperative work is not a straightforward social process whose stability can be taken for granted, and each case of work group formation and process is uniquely influenced by its contextual forces.
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