Software development: Knowledge-intensive work organizations!?

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 237-249

  Clegg, Chris W ^a   Waterson, Patrick E ^a   Axtell, Carolyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE WORK ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030180592     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492996120166     Document Type: Article

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