Understanding Internet-mediated research networks: can we really make them work?
Author InfoBlonk, Heiko van der (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics) Moor, Aldo de Abstract Besides being a distribution medium for up-to-date information, the Internet provides professional communities of users with an infrastructure for collaborative work. An important problem, however, is that groups working over the Internet often fail to accomplish their goals. In this paper our focus is on one category of professional communities, namely research networks. These are networks of professionals collaborating to produce joint artifacts, such as groups reports or journal publications. Although it is often assumed that Internet information tools greatly improve the productivity of research groups, in practice many applications are not very successful. The key questions which we concentrate on in this paper are: what are possible explanati
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