Application of ethical frameworks to IT offshoring

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2911-2919

  Haried, Peter ^a   Nazareth, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; IT offshoring; Normative business ethics; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ETHICS; ETHICAL ISSUES; ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES; ETHICS; GLOBAL OUTSOURCING; NORMATIVE THEORY; OFF-SHORING; SOCIAL CONTRACT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870045747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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