Culture in global software development - A weakness or strength?

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-76

  Deshpande, Sadhana ^a   Richardson, Ita ^a   Casey, Valentine ^b   Beecham, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; OUTSOURCING; SURVEYS;

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TELEPHONIC INTERVIEWS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78149287665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2010.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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