The effect of governance on global software development: An empirical research in transactive memory systems

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1309-1321

  Manteli, Christina ^a   Van Den Hooff, Bart ^a   Van Vliet, Hans ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed teams; Global software development; Social network analysis; Software governance; Transactive memory systems

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS; LATENT VARIABLE MODELING; OFFSHORE INSOURCING; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; TEAM CONFIGURATION; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905122109     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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