Offshore outsourcing: The risk of keeping mum

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 101-103

  Ramingwong, Sakgasit ^a   Sajeev, A S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

MUM EFFECT; POWER DISTANCE INDEX (PDI); PROJECT FAILURE; STAKEHOLDERS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 34547469562     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1278201.1278230     Document Type: Article

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