Investigating Cultural Differences in Virtual Software Teams

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-14

  Dafoulas, Georgios ^a   Macaulay, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; software engineering; virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 85164472852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2002.tb00040.x     Document Type: Article

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