Modularity and innovation in knowledge-intensive business services: IT outsourcing in Germany and the UK

Research Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1419-1439

  Miozzo, Marcela ^a   Grimshaw, Damian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IT outsourcing; Knowledge intensive business services; Modularity

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

IT OUTSOURCING; MODULARITY; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 27744559942     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2005.06.005     Document Type: Article

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