A comparative analysis of offshored and onshored software development projects

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4231-4244

  Bagchi, Kallol ^a   Kirs, Peeter ^a   Udo, Godwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Matched pair analysis; Offshore; Onshore; Software development projects

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA QUALITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL OUTSOURCING; MATCHED PAIR ANALYSIS; OFF-SHORING; OFFSHORE; ONSHORE; PROJECT SIZE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84870198027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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