IT offshoring in tunisia: Trust views from the client and the vendor perspectives

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages 4097-4105

  Kefi, Hajer ^a   Mlaiki, Alya ^b  

^a Affiliated to CEDAG Gestion René Descartes University   (France)

^b Ecole de Management de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

IT offshoring; IT outsourcing; National culture; Organizing principle; Trust

Indexed keywords

IT OUTSOURCING; NATIONAL CULTURES; OFF-SHORING; ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE; TRUST;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870494030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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