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Electronic Meeting Systems Paradox

Hindernisse für den Einsatz funktionierender Technik und Ansätze zu ihrer Überwindung

Electronic meeting systems paradox — Obstacles to deploy efficient techniques and how to overcome these

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Although research has shown that electronic meeting systems (EMS) can improve meetings substantially, EMS are less prominent in organizations than the scientific community originally envisioned. The authors discuss this paradox on the basis of an extensive literature review. They derive success factors for EMS implementation from IS research and develop an implementation model for EMS on the basis of diffusion theory.

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Klein, A., Krcmar, H. Electronic Meeting Systems Paradox. Wirtschaftsinf 45, 421–433 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03250907

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