Social ties in globally distributed software teams: Beyond face-to-face meetings

Journal of Global Information Technology Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 7-34

  Kotlarsky, Julia ^a   Oshri, Ilan ^b   Willcocks, Leslie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face to face meetings; Globally distributed software development teams; Information and communication technology; Social ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013998626     PISSN: 1097198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2007.10856453     Document Type: Article

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