Information systems success in free and open source software development: Theory and measures

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-148

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Howison, James ^a   Annabi, Hala ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept development; Free libre open source software; Information systems success; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING PROCEDURES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; OPEN SYSTEMS;

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUCCESS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33744792694     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.259     Document Type: Article

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