Junk email or spam is rapidly choking off email as a reliable and efficient means of communication over the Internet. While the demand for human attention increases rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of attention hardly changes. Markets are a social institution...

Work life is filled with interruptions, most of which benefit the interrupter more than the one being interrupted. This problem is greatest with remote collaboration, because team members interrupt blindly, without contextual cues about partners' availability. Awareness displays are designed to...

This study focuses on trust formation and development in global buyer-supplier relationships. Trust affects all business relationships, especially global business-to-business (B2B) transactions due to the distances between buyers and suppliers. We use information signaling theory to examine how...

Computer Chips and Paper Clips -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CONTENTS, VOLUME I -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I OVERVIEW -- Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives -- THE CHANGING ROLE OF AMERICAN WOMEN -- OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGING TECHNOLOGY -- POLICY PERSPECTIVES -- Framing the...