Knowledge sharing practices and the impact of cultural factors: Reflections on two case studies of offshoring in SME

Journal of software: Evolution and Process

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-152

  Boden, Alexander ^a   Avram, Gabriela ^b   Bannon, Liam ^b   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnographically informed studies; Global software engineering; Knowledge sharing practices; Offshoring; Small enterprises

Indexed keywords

ETHNOGRAPHICALLY INFORMED STUDIES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; OFF-SHORING; SMALL ENTERPRISE;

CELL CULTURE; OUTSOURCING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84863307705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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