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Information Richness. A New Approach to Managerial Behavior and Organization Design
Richard L. Daft,Robert H. Lengel +1 more
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The concept of information richness is introduced, and three models of information processing are proposed that describe (1) manager information behavior, (2) organizational mechanisms for coping with equivocality from the environment, and (3) organizational mechanism for internal coordination.About:
This article is published in Research in Organizational Behavior.The article was published on 1983-05-01. It has received 2538 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organizational information theory & Information behavior.read more
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Organizational Learning: The Contributing Processes and the Literatures
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Computer-Mediated Communication Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the history of computer mediated communication and found that impersonal communication is sometimes advantageous, and strategies for the intentional depersonalization of media use are inferred, with implications for Group Decision Support Systems effects.
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Interpersonal Effects in Computer-Mediated Interaction: A Relational Perspective
TL;DR: The authors examined the assumptions, methods, and findings of such research and suggested that negative relational effects are confined to narrow situational boundary conditions and that communicators develop individuating impressions of others through accumulated CMC messages based upon these impressions, users may develop relationships and express multidimensional relational messages through verbal or textual cues.
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Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present models of language, communication and cognition that can assist in the design of electronic communication systems for perspective making and perspective taking in knowledge-intensive firms.
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Understanding and mitigating uncertainty in online exchange relationships: a principal- agent perspective
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