Now IT's personal: Offshoring and the shifting skill composition of the U.S. information technology workforce

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 678-695

  Tambe, Prasanna ^a   Hitt, Lorin M ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information systems; IT policy and management; Management of IT human resources; Offshoring; Organizational change; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC OUTSOURCING; FIRM PERFORMANCE; HUMAN CAPITALS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCES; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; IT POLICIES; IT WORKERS; IT WORKFORCE; MICRODATA; OFF-SHORING; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE;

EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; PERSONNEL;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84861385310     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1445     Document Type: Article

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