IT backsourcing: From 'Make or buy' to 'Bringing it back in-house'

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  McLaughlin, Des ^a   Peppard, Joe ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backsourcing; It outsourcing; Outsourcing model; Strategy

Indexed keywords

BACKSOURCING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; IT OUTSOURCING; LIFE-TIMES; MAKE-OR-BUY; OUTSOURCE; OUTSOURCING MODEL; STRATEGY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870643646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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