Information Technology & People: Volume 21 Issue 1

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Mobilization of software developers: the free software movement

Margaret S. Elliott, Walt Scacchi

The paper has three purposes: the first is to provide a deeper understanding of the ideology and work practices of free and open source software development, the second to…

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Social usage of instant messaging by individuals outside the workplace in Kuwait: A structural equation model

Kamel Rouibah

The purpose of this paper is to study factors that affect adults' acceptance of instant messaging (IM) for social and entertainment purposes in an Arab country

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Between control and drift: negotiating improvement in a small software firm

Gitte Tjornehoj, Lars Mathiassen

While the literature on software process improvement (SPI) offers a number of studies of small software firms, little is known about how such initiatives evolve over time. On this…

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Using performance ethnography to explore the human aspects of software quality

Neil McBride

This paper draws on a recent approach to ethnography in order to explore some cultural issues in the development of software quality procedures within software development…

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Cover of Information Technology & People

ISSN:

0959-3845

Online date, start – end:

1992

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof Edgar Whitley
  • Prof Kevin Crowston
  • Prof Yulin Fang
  • Prof Jyoti Choudrie