Research on model of knowledge transfer in outsourced software projects

Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Business and E-Government, ICEE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1894-1899

  Qu, Gang ^a   Li, Bosen ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ICTs; Knowledge attributes; Organizational controls; Social capital; Software outsourcing

Indexed keywords

ICTS; KNOWLEDGE ATTRIBUTES; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROLS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING;

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE;

EID: 78649663714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEE.2010.479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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