An analysis of India's future attractiveness as an offshore destination for IT and IT-enabled services

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 215-227

  Joshi, Kailash ^a   Mudigonda, Srikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Country attractiveness; India; IT; ITES; Offshoring; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149200518     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2008.13     Document Type: Article

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