Effects of culture on control mechanisms in offshore outsourced IT projects

SIGMIS CPR'05 - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 139-145

  Narayanaswamy, Ravi ^a   Henry, Raymond M ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

CULTURAL SETTINGS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; IT PROJECTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 29144452058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1055973.1056004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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