Exploring the impact of socio-technical core-periphery structures in open source software development

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-229

  Amrit, Chintan ^a   Van Hillegersberg, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coordination; core periphery; open source software development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953859288     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2010.7     Document Type: Article

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