Antecedents of Coordination Effectiveness of Software Developer Dyads from Interacting Teams: An Empirical Investigation

Minghui Yuan; Doug Vogel; Xi Zhang; Zhenjiao Chen; Xuelin Chu

Antecedents of Coordination Effectiveness of Software Developer Dyads from Interacting Teams: An Empirical Investigation

Minghui Yuan
, Doug Vogel
, Xi Zhang
, Zhenjiao Chen
, Xuelin Chu

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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Among numerous reasons for software project failure, coordination failure is considered as especially salient. Prior studies on coordination in software development are confined to team internal coordination and do not explicitly differentiate team internal and external coordination processes. This study proposes a research model to explain the antecedents of coordination effectiveness of software developer dyads from interacting teams. We explore the antecedents by integrating inter-personal coordination and technology-based coordination. Data were collected from 59 software developer dyads from different interacting teams as well as software developers' managers. The results reveal that implicit knowledge sharing has a significant positive impact on coordination effectiveness. Social capital (mutual trust and project commitment) has a significant impact on knowledge sharing with mutual trust directly affecting both implicit and explicit knowledge sharing. Project commitment also has a direct impact on explicit knowledge sharing and mutual trust, but it does not directly affect implicit knowledge sharing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACIS 2007 Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems
Publisher	Association for Information Systems
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007
Event	11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises (PACIS 2007) - Langham Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 4 Jul 2007 → 6 Jul 2007 http://www.pacis2007.com/

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Conference	11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises (PACIS 2007)
Place	New Zealand
City	Auckland
Period	4/07/07 → 6/07/07
Internet address	http://www.pacis2007.com/

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Coordination theory
Social capital theory
Software developer dyads
Software development
Team-external coordination

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Yuan, M, Vogel, D, Zhang, X, Chen, Z & Chu, X 2007, Antecedents of Coordination Effectiveness of Software Developer Dyads from Interacting Teams: An Empirical Investigation. in PACIS 2007 Proceedings: 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems. Association for Information Systems, 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises (PACIS 2007), Auckland, New Zealand, 4/07/07. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2007/82/>

Antecedents of Coordination Effectiveness of Software Developer Dyads from Interacting Teams: An Empirical Investigation. / Yuan, Minghui; Vogel, Doug; Zhang, Xi et al.
PACIS 2007 Proceedings: 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems. Association for Information Systems, 2007.

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