Employees’ motivation for SPI: Case study in a small finnish software company

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages 152-163

  Valtanen, Anu ^a   Sihvonen, Hanna Miina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

COMFORTABILITY; FINNISH; LARGE COMPANIES; SMALL COMPANIES; SMALL SOFTWARE COMPANIES; SOFTWARE COMPANY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84974547536     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: 18650937     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85936-9_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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