The contexts of knowing: natural history of a globally distributed team
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MARIETTA L. BABA*, JULIA GLUESING, HILARY RATNER AND KIMBERLY H. WAGNER College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. Institute for Information Technology and Culture, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. The Graduate School, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Area, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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