The impact of communication structure on new product development outcomes

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3081-3090

  Cataldo, Marcelo ^a   Ehrlich, Kate ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Hierarchy; New product development; Small world networks; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE TOOLS; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; DELIVERY PERFORMANCE; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; HIERARCHICAL COMMUNICATIONS; HIERARCHY; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SMALL WORLD NETWORKS; SMALL WORLDS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84862099522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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