An absorptive capacity perspective on open source software development group performance

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 927-936

  Daniel, Sherae L ^a   Agarwal, Ritu ^a   Stewart, Katherine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Open source software; Software development

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; GROUP PERFORMANCE; INTERNET BASED; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; USER COMMUNITIES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870163365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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