Comparing offshore outsourcing and the internal offshoring of software development: A qualitative study

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 5941-5948

  Prikladnicki, Rafael ^a   Nicolas Audy, Jorge Luis ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cross border collaboration; Distributed software development; Internal offshoring; Offshore outsourcing

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; CROSS-BORDER; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EXTERNAL SOLUTIONS; MANAGEMENT LEVEL; MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES; OFF-SHORING; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING; QUALITATIVE STUDY; TWO-DIMENSION; WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARIES;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870320852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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