Motives for establishing shared service centers in public administrations

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 102-115

  Janssen, Marijn ^a   Joha, Anton ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision support; Outsourcing; Public administration; Shared service center; Sourcing

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OUTSOURCING;

DECISION SUPPORT; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; SHARED SERVICE CENTER; SOURCING;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 33646159727     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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