There has been an explosion of new forms of communications media for interpersonal communication. There is anecdotal … from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international …

of e-mail in affecting task type, vertical and horizontal communication and their consequences for PDM. Finally the paper …This paper reviews the literature on the effects of the use of e-mail on direct participation in decision making (PDM …) in organisations. After a brief review of the organisational literature on participation the paper distinguishes e-mail …