Electronic social fields in bureaucracies
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 34 (12) , 75-82
- https://doi.org/10.1145/125319.125324
Abstract
Advanced computer tools designed to facilitate collaboration in a common task or across functions have had a remarkably disappointing record of diffusion and adoption [16]. Technologies that are unresponsive to users needs will not find their markets. Groupware such as electronic mail, conferencing, and on-line editing, however, has an apparently natural affinity to the team and project work of salaried professional employees.Keywords
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