The impact of process standardization on business process outsourcing success

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-224

  Wüllenweber, Kim ^a   Beimborn, Daniel ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^b   König, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process outsourcing; Business process standardization; Outsourcing governance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STANDARDIZATION;

BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING (BPO); BUSINESS PROCESS STANDARDIZATION; OUTSOURCING GOVERNANCE;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 41049089830     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-008-9063-x     Document Type: Article

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