Effect of team diversity on software project performance

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 636-653

  Liang, Ting Peng ^a   Liu, Chih Chung ^a   Lin, Tse Min ^b   Lin, Binshan ^c  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Software Development and Platform Development Division   (Taiwan)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Knowledge management; Software engineering; Value analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

TEAM PERFORMANCE; VALUE DIVERSITY (VD);

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34249058375     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570710750408     Document Type: Article

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