Inside a software design team: knowledge acquisition, sharing, and integration
Communications of the ACM
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
The geography of coordination: dealing with distance in R&D work
GROUP '99 Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
The information-seeking practices of engineers: searching for documents as well as for people
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Cross-cultural usability of the library metaphor
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
The software engineering impacts of cultural factors on multi-cultural software development teams
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Analysis of the Effectiveness of Global Virtual Teams in Software Engineering Projects
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track1 - Volume 1
An Empirical Study of Speed and Communication in Globally Distributed Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Information seeking and sharing in design teams
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Communication Patterns of Engineers
Communication Patterns of Engineers
Culture Surprises in Remote Software Development Teams
Queue - Distributed Development
Managing cross-cultural issues in global software outsourcing
Communications of the ACM - Human-computer etiquette
The many faces of accessibility: engineers' perception of information sources
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Part II: Information seeking research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information "bridging" in a global organization
CASCON '07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research
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Information-seeking strategies were explored in software engineers. A complex interaction of task and geographic differences was revealed. There is a general tendency across software engineers to favor non-social sources, such as documentation, for tasks where the goal is to seek factual information. More social sources are preferred when seeking information to diagnostic, problem-solving questions. Within this effect, some geographic variations assert themselves in a way that might partly be interpreted in terms of national cultural differences in Individualism vs. Collectivism. Implications of geographic differences in information-seeking for collaboration within global software development teams are discussed.