Hallowed grounds: The role of cultural values, practices, and institutions in TMS in an offshored complex engineering services project

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 786-798

  Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L ^a   Keating, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; engineering services; longitudinal case study; offshoring; transactive memory systems (TMSs)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENGINEERING; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL VALUE; ENGINEERING EXPERTISE; ENGINEERING SERVICES; ENGINEERING TEAMS; LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY; OFFSHORING; TEAM MEMBERS; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEMS; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEMS (TMSS);

ENGINEERING;

EID: 80054855157     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2010.2091133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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