Determinants of IT outsourcing relationships: A conceptual model

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Blumenberg, Stefan ^a   Beimborn, Daniel ^a   Koenig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; IT OUTSOURCING; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 51549097967     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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