To send or not to send: An empirical assessment of error reporting behavior

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 455-467

  Saeed, Khawaja A ^a   Muthitacharoen, Achita A ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error reporting system (ERS); Software development; Technology acceptance model (TAM); User involvement

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TECHNOLOGY;

EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; ERROR REPORTING SYSTEM; ERROR REPORTING SYSTEM (ERS); SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM); USER INVOLVEMENT; USER PERCEPTIONS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 49149114731     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2008.922623     Document Type: Article

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