Transplants' role stress and work outcome in IT outsourcing relationships

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 227-245

  Solli Sæther, Hans ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Employee behaviour; Employee relations; Employee turnover; Outsourcing; Role conflict

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOUR; EMPLOYEE RELATIONS; EMPLOYEE TURNOVER; FIELD SURVEYS; IT OUTSOURCING; ORGANISATIONAL LEVEL; OUTSOURCING DECISIONS; OUTSOURCING STRATEGY; RESEARCH MODELS; ROLE CONFLICT; ROLE THEORY; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; OUTSOURCING; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952387189     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635571111115155     Document Type: Article

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