The moderating role of development stage in free/open source software project performance

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-191

  Stewart, Katherine J ^a   Gosain, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Free open source software projects; Shared ideology: software development stage; Software project performance; Trust

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; SHARED IDEOLOGY: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT STAGE; SOFTWARE PROJECT PERFORMANCE; TRUST;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744827742     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.258     Document Type: Article

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