After the re-engineering: Rehabilitating the ICT factor in strategic organizational change through outsourcing

Problems and Perspectives in Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-71

  Kakabadse, Nada K ^a   Kakabadse, Andrew ^b   Kouzmin, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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