Cultural frame management: The emergence of cultural intelligence in chinese IT service vendors

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Su, Ning ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Cultural frame; Cultural intelligence; Outsourcing; Vendor perspective

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CLIENT BASIS; CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS; CULTURAL FRAME; CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE; IT SERVICES; PROCESS FUNCTIONS; VENDOR PERSPECTIVE; WESTERN EUROPE;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84870957195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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