The Irish bridge: A case study of the dual role in offshore sourcing relationships

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 513-526

  Holmström, Helena ^a   Conchúir, Eoin O ^a   Ågerfalk, Pär J ^a   Fitzgerald, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Customer vendor relationship; Global software development; Offshore sourcing; Offshoring

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER-VENDOR RELATIONSHIP; DUAL ROLE; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; IRELAND; OFF-SHORING; OFFSHORE SOURCING; OFFSHORES;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 56349143962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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