The impact of ICTenabled offshoring announcements on share prices

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-256

  Daniel, Elizabeth ^a   Kodwani, Devendra ^a   Datta, Sanjukta ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Off shore investments; Outsourcing; Share prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649382044     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390910949706     Document Type: Article

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