Offshoring and cross-border interorganizational relationships: A justice model

Decision Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 445-468

  Beugré, Constant D ^a   Acar, William ^b  

^a DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral uncertainty; Cultural distance; Interorganizational relationships; Offshoring; Organizational justice; Relational commitment; Relational outcome

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249118316     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2008.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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