Portfolios of Control in Outsourced Software Development Projects

Information Systems Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-314

  Choudhury, Vivek ^a   Sabherwal, Rajiv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Case Studies; Control; Outsourcing; Project Management; Systems Development

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CASE STUDIES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141749138     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.14.3.291.16563     Document Type: Article

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