Global and task effects in information-seeking among software engineers

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 311-326

  Milewski, Allen E ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Culture; Global development; Information seeking

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

COLLABORATION; GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SEEKING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34248562900     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-007-9036-6     Document Type: Article

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