Coordination of globally distributed teams: A co-evolution perspective on offshoring

International Business Review

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 278-290

  Sidhu, Jatinder S ^a   Volberda, Henk W ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Onshore offshore units; Politics and conflict; Shared identity; Task coordination; Work context standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956016232     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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