The impact of cultural differences on IT nearshoring risks from a german perspective

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Von Stetten, Alexander ^a   Kuznetsova, Elena ^a   Beimborn, Daniel ^a   Moos, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULGARIA; CAUSAL MODEL; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; IT PROVIDERS; IT SERVICES; LEBANON; NEARSHORES; OPEN COMMUNICATION; OUTSOURCERS; RISK DIMENSIONS; RISK FACTORS; TUNISIA;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 77951759928     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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