Organizational readiness for business process outsourcing: A model of determinants and impact on outsourcing success

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Martin, Sebastian F ^a   Beimborn, Daniel ^b   Parikh, Mihir A ^c   Weitzel, Tim ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 51449117699     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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