Boundary spanning in offshored ISD projects: A project social capital perspective

SIGMIS CPR'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-230

  Krishnan, Poornima ^a   Ranganathan, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Collaboration; Distributed teams; Intellectual capital; International crosscultural alliance; Offshore software development; Outsourcing; Project managers; Social capital

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARIES; COLLABORATION; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; INTERNATIONAL CROSSCULTURAL ALLIANCE; OFFSHORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGERS; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; OUTSOURCING; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

RESEARCH;

EID: 70349308038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542130.1542175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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