Breaching the knowledge transfer blockade in IT offshore outsourcing projects - A case from the financial services industry

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gregory, Robert ^a   Beck, Roman ^a   Prifling, Michael ^a  

^a E Finance Lab Frankfurt   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE; FINANCIAL SERVICES; GROUNDED THEORY DEVELOPMENT; IT SERVICE PROVIDERS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERS; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCINGS; PROCESS KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 63349105559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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