Engineering know-who : why social connectedness matters to global design teams

• Main Author: Larsson, Andreas
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Luleå 2005
• Subjects: Other Engineering and Technologies; Annan teknik; Other Mechanical Engineering; Annan maskinteknik; Polhem; Luleå
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17003

The background of this thesis is the development of global, ‘virtual’, collaboration teams in the engineering domain. Distributed concurrent engineering is probably the ‘holy grail’ of current research into collaborative engineering. In this thesis, I seek to identify what some of the challenges for...