Is more IT offshoring better?. An exploratory study of western companies offshoring to South East Asia

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 322-335

  Bhalla, Ajay ^a   Sodhi, ManMohan S ^a   Son, Byung Gak ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global operations; IT outsourcing; Offshoring; Regression cluster analysis; Service operations

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL OPERATIONS; OFFSHORING VARIABLES; SERVICE OPERATIONS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 38949170950     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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