The impact of multi-site software governance on knowledge management

Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 40-49

  Manteli, Christina ^a   Van Den Hooff, Bart ^a   Tang, Antony ^a   Van Vliet, Hans ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; multi site software development; software governance

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS STRATEGY; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; MULTI-SITE; MULTI-SITE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PRINTING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT GOVERNANCES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 81255143832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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