Cultural intelligence and offshore outsourcing success: A framework of firm-level intercultural capability

Decision Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 337-358

  Ang, Soon ^a   Inkpen, Andrew C ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b THUNDERBIRD SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural intelligence; Offshoring; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249119956     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2008.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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