Scale Economies in New Software Development

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1989, Pages 1199-1205

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Kemerer, Chris F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SCALE ECONOMIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOURCE CODE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE--SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0024753382     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1989.559768     Document Type: Article

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