Offshore or not? An transaction cost economics analysis

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3127-3135

  Li, Jessica Pu ^a   Kishore, Rajiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Make or buy decision; Offshore outsourcing; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

ASSET SPECIFICITY; DOMESTIC OUTSOURCING; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; MAKE-OR-BUY DECISIONS; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS;

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870317077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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