Transition during offshore outsourcing: A process model

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tiwari, Vinay ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

And adaptation; IS offshore outsourcing; Learning; Transfer; Transition

Indexed keywords

AND ADAPTATION; LEARNING; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING; TRANSFER; TRANSITION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870958329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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