Exploring the effects of coordination and communication tools on the efficiency of open source projects using data envelopment analysis

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 234, Issue , 2007, Pages 97-108

  Koch, Stefan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Open source software development; Software repositories

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TOOLS; EFFICIENCY COMPARISONS; MULTI-INPUT , MULTI-OUTPUT SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; TOOLS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547933886     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_8     Document Type: Article

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