Trust facilitating good software outsourcing relationships

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4257 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 171-182

  Siakas, Kerstin V ^a   Maoutsidis, Dimitri ^a   Siakas, Errikos ^a  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Global organizations; Outsourcing; Trust

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS); SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING; TRUST;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845256905     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11908562_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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