Groups Interacting with Technology: Ideas, Evidence, Issues and an Agenda (SAGE Library of Social Research)

By Joseph E. McGrath and Andrea B. Hollingshead

Book Overview

Whether technology can improve a work group′s productivity is one of the questions addressed in this volume, which examines how the use of computers and other electronic technology affects the behaviour of groups - and the results of a group′s endeavours.

Contributors also discuss the conditions which make group meetings via computer as effective as groups that meet face-to-face and what technologies do to the groups that use them. They examine and relate the major conceptual ideas employed by various research groups through a systematic review of the theory and evidence in the field. The volume concludes with a condensed classification of empirical evidence from studies of electronic support in collaborative groupwo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803948980
• ISBN13: 9780803948983
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"