Trust and social capital: Revisiting an offshoring failure story of a small German software company

ECSCW 2009 - Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-142

  Boden, Alexander ^a   Nett, Bernhard ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONTEXT-FREE; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; OFF-SHORING; RISKY INVESTMENTS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOFTWARE COMPANY; WORK ORGANIZATION;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 79955152611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-854-4_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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