Coping with cultural and maturity inequality in offshore outsourcing: Is minimizing interaction the solution?

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hertzum, Morten ^a   Pries Heje, Jan ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Culture; Extra costs; Maturity; Minimal interaction strategy; Offshore outsourcing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; LAY-OUT; MATURITY; MINIMAL-INTERACTION STRATEGY; OFF-SHORING; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING;

CELL CULTURE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870661785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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