Leadership and trust in partially distributed software development teams

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2502-2508

  Plotnick, Linda ^a   Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^a   Ocker, Rosalie ^b   Rutkowski, A F ^c   Rosson, Mary Beth ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Leadership; Partially distributed teams; PDTs; Trust; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; LEADERSHIP; PDTS; TRUST; VIRTUAL TEAM;

MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870349461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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