Managing change in an information systems development organization: Understanding developer transitions from a structured to an object-oriented development environment

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-297

  Shaft, Teresa M ^a   Albert, Leslie Jordan ^b   Jasperson, Jon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal study; Object oriented development; Shared mental models; Structured development

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749096106     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2007.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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