Institutional effects on the IT outsourcing market: Analysing clients, suppliers and staff transfer in Germany and the UK

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1229-1259

  Grimshaw, Damian ^a   Miozzo, Marcela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Institutional effects; IT outsourcing; Knowledge intensive business services; Staff transfer; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744606399     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606064103     Document Type: Article

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