Offshoring propensity in information technology services: a firm and country level analysis

Management International Review

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 447-461

  Jain, Naveen Kumar ^a   Kundu, Sumit K ^a   Niederman, Fred A ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm and country level analysis; Information technology; Institutional theory; Offshoring; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049188838     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-008-0026-8     Document Type: Article

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