Building a successful relationship in business process outsourcing: An exploratory study

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-180

  Bharadwaj, Sangeeta S ^a   Saxena, Kul Bhushan C ^a   Halemane, Murthy D ^b  

^a MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BPO outcome; Business process outsourcing competencies; Successful outsourcing relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952062565     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.8     Document Type: Article

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