Why 'nearshore' means that distance matters

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 40-46

  Carmel, Erran ^a   Abbott, Pamela ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; LINGUISTICS; OUTSOURCING; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

INFOSYS (CO); SATYAM COMPUTERS (CO);

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34848815664     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1290958.1290959     Document Type: Article

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