Emergent decision-making practices in free/libre open source software (floss) development teams

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 234, Issue , 2007, Pages 71-84

  Heckman, Robert ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^a   Eseryel, U Yeliz ^a   Howison, James ^a   Allen, Eileen ^a   Li, Qing ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making practices; FLOSS; Free libre open source software development teams; OSS; team effectiveness

Indexed keywords

DECISION-MAKING PRACTICES; FLOSS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OSS; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547938131     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_6     Document Type: Article

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