Off and out: The spaces for certification - Offshore outsourcing in St Petersburg, Russia

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1889-1907

  Feakins, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAINT PETERSBURG [RUSSIAN FEDERATION];

EID: 34548336680     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38159     Document Type: Article

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