Cultural intelligence and project management interplay in it offshore outsourcing projects;L'interaction entre intelligence culturelle et gestion de projet dans les projets d'infogérance offshore

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Beck, Roman ^a   Gregory, Robert ^a   Prifling, Michael ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural intelligence; Exploratory case study; Financial services; Germany; Grounded heory; India; IT project management; Offshore outsourcing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPLORATORY CASE STUDIES; FINANCIAL SERVICE; GERMANY; GROUNDED HEORY; INDIA; IT PROJECT MANAGEMENTS; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870378638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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