Abstract “Empowerment” has become a pervasive term of art in business practice,
particularly in the United States. The term traces its roots to the organizing models evolved …

There is an increasing involvement of different disciplines in requirements capture.
However, such collaboration can result in the replacement of one set of problems with …

This thesis documents practices in distributed coauthoring groups which are not consistent
with certain assumptions evident in the literature on collaborative writing systems. Instead of …

The view of work embodied in a group support system constitutes a designer's
understanding of how work gets done in collaborative settings. This paper argues that a …

The complexity of group interaction means that there will be many uncertainties in the
requirements for software support tools. Many existing software systems rely on the …

Organisational problems are among the most important impediments to widespread AMT
applications within the firms. Successful applications usually require re-organisation of work …

In recent years, the realisation that information technology (IT) and computer-based
information systems (CBIS) can be used not simply as means to improve the efficiency of …