How to measure relationships - merging alignment and outsourcing research towards a unified relationship quality construct

Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4219-4231

  Beimborn, Daniel ^a   Blumenberg, Stefan ^a  

^a E Finance Lab   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IT BUSINESS; ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES; RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; UNIFIED MODEL;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870193115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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