The myths and realities of information technology insourcing

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-107

  Hirschheim, Rudy ^c   Lacity, Mary ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 0038629761     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/328236.328112     Document Type: Article

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