A study of electronics engineering design teams

Design Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 375-402

  Jagodzinski, P ^a   Reid, F J M ^a   Culverhouse, P ^a   Parsons, R ^a   Phillips, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Plessey Semiconductors   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Engineering design; Ethnography; Research methods; Systems design; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346483370     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(00)00008-9     Document Type: Article

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