A preliminary decision model for Shared Services: Insights from an Australian university context

12th Australian Conference on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support, ACKMIDS 09 and 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 492-502

  Yee, Jonathan ^a   Chian, Felix Tan Ter ^b   Chan, Taizan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Higher education; Inter organisational shared services; Organisational design; Outsourcing; Shared services

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; COST SAVING; DECISION MODELS; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; HIGHER EDUCATION; LOWER COST; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SERVICE DELIVERY; SHARED SERVICE; TRANSACTION COST; UNIVERSITY CONTEXT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MODELS; OUTSOURCING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COSTS;

EID: 84857020206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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