Is offshore sourcing decision astrategic response to declining firm performance?

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1313-1320

  Srivastava, Shirish C ^a   Teo, Thompson S H ^a   Mohapatra, Partha S ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Offshoring; Performance downturn; Strategic change

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENCY THEORY; EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY; FIRM PERFORMANCE; INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES; OFF-SHORING; PERFORMANCE DOWNTURN; STRATEGIC CHANGES; STRATEGIC RESPONSE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870210539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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