Planning and knowledge about strategies: Their relationship to work characteristics in software design?

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 213-225

  Sonnentag, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEM DESIGN; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STRATEGY; WORK CHARACTERISTIC;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030181098     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492996120148     Document Type: Article

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