Looking for a place to hide: A study of social loafing in agile teams

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  McAvoy, John ^a   Butler, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Groups; Social loafing; Sociological factors; Teams

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GROUPS; SOCIAL LOAFING; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTOR; TEAMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84870634316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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