Online sourcing: Investigations from service clients' perspective

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 3606-3619

  Lu, Baozhou ^a   Hirschheim, Rudy ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online sourcing; Online sourcing community; Online sourcing marketplace; Outsourcing decisions

Indexed keywords

NEW BUSINESS MODELS; ONLINE SOURCING; ONLINE SOURCING COMMUNITY; ONLINE SOURCING MARKETPLACE; OUTSOURCING DECISIONS; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH MODELS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870317690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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