Owning the Code: Status Closure in Distributed Groups

Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 418 - 435
Published: Jul 1, 2006
Abstract
An ethnographic study of a team of software developers working on a new product across two groups---located on the West Coast of the United States and in Bangalore, India---is used to analyze status dynamics in distributed groups. Whereas existing literature has emphasized the importance of communication, task design, and incentives for cooperation, this paper shows how status differentials and geographic distance reinforce each other to affect...
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Title
Owning the Code: Status Closure in Distributed Groups
Published Date
Jul 1, 2006
Volume
17
Issue
4
Pages
418 - 435
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