DEFINING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECT SUCCESS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 327-340

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Annabi, Hala ^a   Howison, James ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Open source software; software development; system success

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; INFORMATION SYSTEM RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUCCESS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SYSTEM SUCCESS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 85134942598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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