The Effectiveness of External Information Channels in Facilitating Innovation within Software Development Groups
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in MIS Quarterly
- Vol. 7 (2) , 43-58
- https://doi.org/10.2307/248912
Abstract
This study of forty-nine software development groups investigated the effectiveness of ten information channels, linking the software groups to potential information resources about new developments in software methodologies, as a means of facilitating software group innovativeness. While the findings suggest that software group innovativeness can be improved by providing appropriate external information channels, this relationship is contingent on a software groups internal environment. The channels most commonly provided by those organizations participating in the study tended to be those least effective in promoting innovation.Keywords
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