Analyzing leadership dynamics in distributed group communication

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Wiggins, Andrea ^a   Howison, James ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GROUP COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED GROUPS; FLOSS PROJECTS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GROUP PERFORMANCE; HIGHER-DEGREE; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; USER ORIENTED;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951756709     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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