Electronic alliances: Outsourcing for competitive advantage

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2949-2955

  Stratopoulos, Theophanis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; IT capability; Outsourcing; Relational theory; Resource based view; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; IT CAPABILITIES; RELATIONAL THEORIES; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE;

COMPETITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870040725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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