A structurational perspective on leadership in free/libre open source software teams

OSS 2005 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 9-15

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Heckman, Robert ^a   Annabi, Hala ^b   Masango, Chengetai ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SELF ORGANIZING; SHARED MENTAL MODEL; SOCIAL THEORY; STRUCTURATION; STRUCTURATION THEORY; TEAM MEMBERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 62349125345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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