IT outsourcing in insurance services: Risk, creative contracting and business advantage

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 163-180

  Willcocks, Leslie P ^a,c   Lacity, Mary C ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Contracting; Information technology; Outsourcing; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033470584     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1999.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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