The influence of software developers' creative style on their attitudes to and assimilation of a software process innovation

Information and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 443-465

  Gallivan, Michael J ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Implementation; Innovativeness; IS professionals; Mandatory adoption

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MICROCOMPUTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MANDATORY ADOPTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037408679     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7206(02)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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