Where to outsource: Using a hybrid multi-criteria decision aid method for selecting an offshore outsourcing location

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3119-3127

  Li, Huifen ^a,b   Wang, Jianjun ^a   Yang, Deli ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DALIAN NEUSOFT UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION   (China)

Author keywords

AHP; Location decision; Multi criteria decision; Offshoring; PROMETHEE; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AHP; LOCATION DECISIONS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; OFF-SHORING; PROMETHEE;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870344516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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