Time to success in offshoring business processes a multi level analysis

Management International Review

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-92

  Hutzschenreuter, Thomas ^a   Lewin, Arie Y ^b   Dresel, Stephan ^a  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Heterogeneity; Offshoring; Path dependencies; Performance; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957987154     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-010-0061-0     Document Type: Article

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