Collaborating across boundaries in a global economy: Do organizational boundaries and country contexts matter?

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 527-542

  Levina, Natalia ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Collaboration; Communities of practice; Offshore software development; Outsourcing; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SPANNING; BOUNDARY-SPANNING PRACTICES; COLLABORATION; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; FINANCIAL SERVICE; GLOBAL COLLABORATION; GLOBAL ECONOMIES; GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH; IT PROJECT; MIDDLE MANAGERS; OFFSHORE ACTIVITY; OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT; OFFSHORE LOCATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES; ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES; QUALITATIVE METHOD;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870211871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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