Business Process Outsourcing: An event study on the nature of processes and firm valuation

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 442-457

  Duan, Chaojie ^a   Grover, Varun ^b   Balakrishnan, Nagraj ^b  

^a TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business Process Outsourcing; Event study; Process ownership; Value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249109856     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2009.38     Document Type: Article

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