Cooperation, coordination, and governance in multisourcing: An agenda for analytical and empirical research

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 785-795

  Bapna, Ravi ^a,b   Barua, Anitesh ^c   Mani, Deepa ^b   Mehra, Amit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Coordination; Multisourcing; Observability; Offshore outsourcing; Output verifiability; Relational governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650648208     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1100.0328     Document Type: Article

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