On 19 Jan 2005 at 9:38, air-l-aoir.org-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:37:23 -0500 From: "Karim R. Lakhani" <lakhani@MIT.EDU> Subject: [Air-l] Studies on email use and collaboration To: air-l <air-l@aoir.org> Message-ID: <41ED8FA3.4080304@mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi All,
I was wondering if people can point me to articles and studies on email use and collaboration - are there any studies that show how collaboration occurs via email? Also any studies that look at how many recipients per message?
TIA
K -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu
Karim, I have done a study that analyzes the effects of the use of emailing lists by researchers, especially whether and how it enables them to make new contacts (weak contacts, exchange of papers, collaboration contacts): Matzat U. (2004). "Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer of Information or Creation of Social Contacts?" in: Social Networks, 26, 3: 221-255. You can find a pre-print on my website. Regards, Uwe Matzat ======================================= Uwe Matzat Sociology Section Department of Technology Management Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands --------------- phone: +31 40 247-8392 email: u.matzat@tm.tue.nl http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/ =======================================