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Context: To be more flexible, companies call more and more for an independence between development tools and processes. To enable this form of decoupling we need to understand the interrelation of processes and development tools. However, knowledge about that field is rare.Goal: The goal of this study is to better understand how technologies in use might impact the processes and team interaction.Method:...
We conduct a qualitative, interview-based study with 12 participants in order to shed further light on the success factors of agile ISD because quantitative studies reported on contradictory results. First, we identify four success factors from previous literature that form the conceptual basis of our investigation. Those factors are the team, customer, organization, and communication. We extend previous...
This study verifies the validity of collaborative language learning between foreign language learners and native speakers in distance environment. In order to provide a high presence experience in remote video conferencing system, the environment used in our experiment is based on the Hyper Mirror (HM) video conferencing system in which students communicate with an experience of being somewhat similar...
The academic interest in International Entrepreneurship and Born Globals on the one hand; and in standardization and standards on the other hand is strong and growing, but there has been hardly any linkage between the two research streams. This paper shows how Born Globals can successfully establish their technologies as de facto standards. Based on 22 case studies and a new success factors model,...
Software product management discipline helps in managing software products from its beginning to support. It covers strategic issues of managing products including technical and business roadmapping, resource planning as well as strategic and tactical planning. In this qualitative study, we interviewed six organizations to understand how software product management is implemented in the organizations...
This paper uses the theoretical lenses of Stakeholder Theory and Organisational Capabilities Theory to shed light on two factors that can lead to higher levels of improvement. We report on the results of a case study of a major Australian retail organisation where we explore the impact of the proposed factors. Qualitative evidence shows that improvement depends on continuously revisited cyclical,...
Little research has been done to explore the status of business genres in China. The present study explores the evolution of genre of resume writing in China using a grounded theory approach. This study examines the rhetorical patterns and persuasive strategies employed in resume writing in different periods in China and reveals how these changes are related to historical, social, and economic contexts...
The efficiency of technological innovation is determined by successful integration of enterprise knowledge resources. Through the analysis of knowledge integration in technological innovation, the most effective way of integrating explicit knowledge is transforming them into the instructions and rules in enterprise in this paper. Instruction model of the enterprise technological innovation, coordination...
This highly interactive workshop reviews the theory and practice of focus group methods, and shows how technical communicators can use focus groups to understand the issues and needs of audiences, users, and customers. The workshop covers focus group theory, design considerations, capturing and analyzing data, and validating data through member checking.
This study began with a micro view of the mobile services phenomenon, leading to a macro view of social context. To decompose the customer value in the mobile services, using a three-stage coding process through grounded hermeneutics. The contribution of this study is to reveal a theoretically-saturated of a conceptual framework, and to discover the six theoretical propositions.
The professional responsibilities of CFOs in Chinese listed firms have been growing dramatically, as supervision rules improve and market competition gets fierce. In this context few academic studies on CFOs roles drive this paper to adopt grounded theory approach to explore this topic. By grounded theory guidance, an analytical framework is established, based on the survey and interview data. The...
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