The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 185-203

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Howison, James ^a   Masango, Chengetai ^a   Eseryel, U Yeliz ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face to face meetings; Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development; Technology supported self organizing distributed teams; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

ANALYSIS OF DATA; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; FACE TO FACE; FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SELF-ORGANISING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED SELF-ORGANIZING DISTRIBUTED TEAM; VIRTUAL TEAM;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 65449165719     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2007.902654     Document Type: Article

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