Assessing the relative contribution of the facets of agility to distributed systems development success: An analytic hierarchy process approach

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 285-299

  Sarker, Saonee ^a   Munson, Charles L ^a   Sarker, Suprateek ^b   Chakraborty, Suranjan ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^c TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agility; Analytic hierarchy process; Distributed software development; Distributed teams; Global software development; Practitioner perspectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149087103     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2009.25     Document Type: Article

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