Information Systems Outsourcing Relationship Factors: Detailed Conceptualization and Initial Evidence

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 47-67

  Goles, Tim ^a   Chin, Wynne W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer Vendor Relationship; IS Outsourcing; Relational Exchange Theory; Scale Development; Structured Equation Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751172525     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1104004.1104009     Document Type: Article

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