Critical factors in establishing and maintaining trust in software outsourcing relationships

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 624-627

  Nguyen, Phong Thanh ^a   Babar, Muhammad Ali ^a,b   Verner, June M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b National ICI Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Managing trust relationships; Software development; Software outsourcing; Vietnamese software developers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CONTRACTS; DATA ACQUISITION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONTRACT CONFORMANCE; MANAGING TRUST RELATIONSHIPS; SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING; VIETNAMESE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 34247104640     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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