Decision-making paths in self-organizing technology-mediated distributed teams;Les chemins de prise de décision dans les équipes à distance auto-organisées

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision Making Path; FLOSS; Free Libre Open Source Software; Group Decision Making; Self Organizing Technology Mediated Distributed Team

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING; FACE-TO-FACE GROUPS; FLOSS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; GROUP DECISION MAKING; SELF ORGANIZING; TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84870965526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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