Leadership roles and communication issues in partially distributed emergency response software development teams: A pilot study

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Plotnick, Linda ^a   Ocker, Rosalie ^b   Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^a   Rosson, Mary Beth ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEAMING; EMERGENCY RESPONSES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 51449104614     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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