Familiarity, complexity, and team performance in geographically distributed software development

Authors :: Espinosa, J. Alberto
Slaughter, Sandra A.
Kraut, Robert E.
Herbsleb, James D.
Source :: Organization Science. July-August, 2007, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p613, 18 p.
Publication Year :: 2007
Abstract: While prior research has found that familiarity is beneficial to team performance, it is not clear whether different kinds of familiarity are more or less beneficial when the work has [...]

Subjects :: Complexity (Philosophy) -- Research
Work groups -- Evaluation -- Research
Third-party software developers -- Research
Task analysis -- Research
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Social sciences
Third party software developer
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