Do gradations of time zone separation make a difference in performance? A first laboratory study

Proceedings - International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 12-22

  Espinosa, J Alberto ^a   Nan, Ning ^b   Carmel, Erran ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIMES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY STUDIES; LITTLE RESEARCHES; MAP TASKS; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; PRODUCTION SPEEDS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; TEAM PERFORMANCES; TIME DIFFERENCES; TIME SEPARATIONS; TIME ZONES;

SEPARATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SPEED;

EID: 47949114389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2007.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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