Knowledge transfer in offshore insourcing

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1039-1054

  Chua, Ai Ling ^a   Pan, Shan L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

IS BOK; Knowledge transfer; Offshore insourcing; Types of knowledge

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; IS BOK; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; OFFSHORE INSOURCING; OFFSHORE RESOURCES; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78751491692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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