Co-located and Distributed Teams: towards the 24-hour Knowledge Factory
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Amar Gupta*, Elisa Mattarelli, Satwik Seshasai, and Joseph Broschak Thomas R. Brown Professor of Management and Technology University of Arizona, [email protected] and Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [email protected] Assistant Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia [email protected] Doctoral Student, MIT and Project Manager, IBM [email protected] Associate Professor, University of Arizona [email protected]
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