The importance of trust in software engineers' assessment and choice of information sources

Information and Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-18

  Hertzum, Morten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Communication by engineers; Information seeking; Information sources; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003226090     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-7727(01)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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