Removing barriers to trust in distributed teams: Understanding cultural differences and strengthening social ties

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 273-276

  Mikawa, Suzanne P ^a   Cunnington, Sharon K ^a   Gaskins, Scott A ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross site collaboration; Culture; Distributed development; Remote teams; Social ties; Trust

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SITE COLLABORATION; CULTURE; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; REMOTE TEAMS; SOCIAL TIES; TRUST;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; STRENGTHENING (METAL);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 67650695265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1499224.1499275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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