Virtual workgroups in offshore systems development

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 305-318

  Sakthivel, Sachidanandam ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global outsourcing; Global software development; Offshore systems development; Virtual work

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA REDUCTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

GLOBAL OUTSOURCING; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OFFSHORE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (OSD); VIRTUAL WORK;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 14644393702     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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