An empirical analysis of the impact of information capabilities design on business process outsourcing performance

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-62

  Mani, Deepa ^a   Barua, Anitesh ^b   Whinston, Andrew ^b  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process outsourcing; Governance; Information capabilities; Information processing view; Information requirements; Performance

Indexed keywords

OUTSOURCING;

BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING; GOVERNANCE; INFORMATION CAPABILITY; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; PERFORMANCE;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77649157449     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20721414     Document Type: Article

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