Expectations between parties playing similar roles in global software development: A psychological contract perspective

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 961-972

  Lane, Michael T ^a   Agerfalk, Pär J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b University of Limerick   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Distributed Development; Global Software Development; Psychological Contract

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ANALYSTS; CO-LOCATED; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84869476903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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