Project characteristics and group communication: an investigation

Author

Roberts, Tom L. ; Cheney, Paul H. ; Sweeney, Paul D.

Author_Institution

Accounting & Inf. Syst. Dept., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

45

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

98

Abstract

The research study presented examined the effects of technological complexity on project group communication. The same project teams performed three separate projects involving the development of an HTML Website, the development of a local area network (LAN), and the development of blueprints for a wide-area network (WAN). Each of the projects exposed groups to a different level of complexity. The results of the study indicated differences in group information sharing, group communication focus, and group gatekeeping activities. In each of these cases, the groups had greater communication with the less complex project task, the HTML project. The study did not find significant differences in group communication concerned with member withdrawal or group conflict

Keywords

hypermedia markup languages; information resources; local area networks; professional communication; project management; wide area networks; HTML Web site; HTML project; LAN; WAN; group communication; group communication focus; group conflict; group gatekeeping activities; group information sharing; information sharing; local area network; member withdrawal; project characteristics; project group; project group communication; project teams; technological complexity; wide-area network; HTML; History; Local area networks; Management information systems; Production systems; Project management; Standards development; Teamwork; Veins; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0361-1434

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPC.2002.1003690

Filename

1003690