Changing psychological contracts and their effect on control modes 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

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

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MODES; FINANCIAL SERVICES; INFORMAL CONTROLS; OFF SHORINGS; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCINGS; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS; RESEARCH DESIGNS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS;

PERSONNEL;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 63349106134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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