The role of motivational factors in distributed software development teams: An empirical investigation

ECIS 2013 - Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vujdan, El Khatib ^a   Thanh Nam, Trang Simon ^a   Kai, Reimers ^a   Lutz, Kolbe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed teams; IT project management; Motivation; Software development; VIST model

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; IT PROJECT MANAGEMENTS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84905841530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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