It offshore outsourcing: Contingency and strategies

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1324-1334

  Chen, Rui ^a   Kishore, Rajiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION LEVEL; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; CULTURE THEORY; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; OFF-SHORING; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING; RESEARCH ISSUES; SOCIAL CONTRACT; STRATEGIC RESPONSE; THEORY DEVELOPMENT; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870225118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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