An ethnographic study of engineering design teams at Rolls-Royce Aerospace

Design Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 333-355

  Baird, F ^a   Moore, C J ^b   Jagodzinski, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative design, research methods; Engineering design; Ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000795468     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(00)00006-5     Document Type: Article

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