Emergent decision-making practices in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 649-660

  Heckman, Robert ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Allen, Eileen ^a   Eseryel, U ^a   Howison, James ^a   Wie, Kangning ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making practices; Distributed teams; Free Libre Open Source Software development teams; Leadership; Selforganizing teams; Team effectiveness; Technology supported teams; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

DECISION-MAKING PRACTICES; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; LEADERSHIP; SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED TEAMS; VIRTUAL TEAM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84870018387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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