Antecedents of coordination effectiveness of software developer dyads from interacting teams: An empirical investigation

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 494-507

  Yuan, Minghui ^a   Zhang, Xi ^b,c   Chen, Zhenjiao ^b   Vogel, Douglas R ^a   Chu, Xuelin ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Coordination theory; Social capital theory (SCT); Software developer dyads; Software development; Team external coordination

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION THEORY; SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY (SCT); SOFTWARE DEVELOPER DYADS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TEAM-EXTERNAL COORDINATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 68349110788     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2008.927819     Document Type: Article

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