Online collaboration: Collaborative behavior patterns and factors affecting globally distributed team performance

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 490-503

  Sere, Fatma Cemile ^a   Swigger, Kathleen ^b   Alpaslan, Ferda Nur ^c   Brazile, Robert ^b   Dafoulas, George ^d   Lopez, Victor ^e  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

Author keywords

Collaborative behavior; Collaborative learning; Computer supported collaborative learning; Distributed teams; Global software development; K means clustering

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOR; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; K-MEANS CLUSTERING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 78449274120     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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