It takes two to tango: How relational investments improve IT outsourcing partnerships

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-164

  Mehta, Nikhil ^a   Mehta, Anju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DOWNTURN; IT OUTSOURCING; LONG TERM; TRANSITION COSTS; VENDORS' PERSPECTIVES;

INVESTMENTS; OUTSOURCING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 75749157060     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1646353.1646393     Document Type: Article

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