Knowledge Capability and Maturity in Software Management

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 26-43

  Baskerville, Richard ^a   Pries Heje, Jan ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Information technology innovation; Knowledge management; Software management; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899000929     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/383371.383374     Document Type: Article

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