A qualitative investigation of IS offshore sourcing

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3187-3194

  Sayeed, Lutfus ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; IS outsourcing; Offshore sourcing; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

CORE COMPETENCIES; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION PROCESS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPLOYEE TURNOVER; IT PROJECT; MEDIUM SIZE; OFFSHORE SOURCING; PROCESS VIEW; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRANSACTIONS COSTS; VIRTUAL TEAM;

DECISION MAKING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870315527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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