“Thinking Local, Acting Global”: Issues of Identity and Related Tensions in Global Software Organizations in India

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-20

  D’Mello, Marisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Global; identity; knowledge worker; local; reflexivity; self

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447270986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2005.tb00140.x     Document Type: Article

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