Exploring ASP as sourcing strategy: Theoretical perspectives, propositions for practice

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-177

  Kern, Thomas ^a   Kreijger, Jeroen ^b   Willcocks, Leslie ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Trilogy   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application service provision; Case research approach; Interdisciplinary contingency theory; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867941962     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8687(02)00004-5     Document Type: Article

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