Outsourcing projects success: The role of competence and leadership of the vendors and clients project managers

SIGMIS CPR'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 83-87

  Zainuddin, Eruani ^a   Bassellier, Geneviève ^b   Benbasat, Izak ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business knowledge, leadership styles, project managers; IT Outsourcing, IT knowledge

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE; IT KNOWLEDGE; IT OUTSOURCING; LEADERSHIP STYLE; PROJECT MANAGERS;

INDUSTRY; MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 77954565816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1796900.1796933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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