Social ties, knowledge sharing and successful collaboration in globally distributed system development projects

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-48

  Kotlarsky, Julia ^a   Oshri, Ilan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaborative work; Dispersed teams; Knowledge sharing; Social aspects

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444390911     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000520     Document Type: Article

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