Cultural differences in temporal perceptions and its application to running efficient global software teams

Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 55-61

  Egan, Richard W ^a   Tremaine, Marilyn ^a   Fjermestad, Jerry ^a   Milewski, Allen ^b   O'Sullivan, Patrick ^c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL DISTANCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 38649127544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2006.261216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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