Extending a theory of remote scientific collaboration to corporate contexts

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Extending a theory of remote scientific collaboration to corporate contexts

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

San Jose, CA, USA

SESSION: Work-in-progress table of contents

Pages: 2321 - 2326

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-642-4

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Sajeev P. Cherian	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Judith S. Olson	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we present preliminary results of a research project aimed at understanding the theoretical basis for successful remote collaboration in corporations. We evaluate some corporate distributed teams with respect to a theory of remote scientific collaboration to identify similarities and differences in corporate contexts. Preliminary results indicate that distance collaboration in corporations differs from distance collaboration in scientific research in three key ways: (1) the importance of functional (as opposed to geographic) distance, (2) new collaboration paradigms (i.e. offshoring) with varying degrees of.otherness. and (3) different incentives. We additionally discuss future research plans based upon our initial findings.

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