Mutual development: The software engineering context of end-user development

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 36-57

  Mørch, Anders I ^a   Andersen, Renate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Case study; Customer initiated product development; Empirical analysis; End user development; Mutual development; Software engineering; Theoretical perspectives

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; END USER DEVELOPMENT; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; META-DESIGN; MUTUAL DEVELOPMENT; OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY; PLANNING TOOLS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE TOOL; SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GAS INDUSTRY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH; SALES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77954111874     PISSN: 15462234     EISSN: 15465012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/joeuc.2010101902     Document Type: Article

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