The Effectiveness of External Information Channels in Facilitating Innovation Within Software Development Groups
研究了49个软件开发团队中十种外部信息渠道对促进创新的有效性，发现渠道效果取决于团队内部环境，且组织常提供的渠道并非最有效。
This study of forty-nine software development groups investigated the effectiveness of ten information channels, linking the software groups to potential information sources 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 group’s internal environment. The channels most commonly provided by those organizations participating in the study tended to be those least effective in promoting innovation.