Following the Sun: Temporal dispersion and performance in open source software project teams

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 684-707

  Colazo, Jorge A ^a   Fang, Yulin ^b  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coordination theory; Open source; Team performance; Temporal dispersion; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DISPERSIONS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COORDINATION THEORY; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE; PROJECT TEAM; TEAM MEMBERS; TEAM PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL DISPERSION; TEMPORAL PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL TEAM;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 78650353458     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00243     Document Type: Article

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