Process documentation, operational alignment, and flexibility in it outsourcing relationships: A knowledge-based perspective;Documentation de processus, alignement opérationnel et flexibilité dans les relations d'externalisation des TI: Une perspective centrée sur la connaissance

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Martin, Sebastian F ^a   Wagner, Heinz Theo ^b   Beimborn, Daniel ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Application Management Outsourcing; Knowledge based Theory; Operational Alignment

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT OF IT AND BUSINESS; APPLICATION MANAGEMENT; BANKING INDUSTRY; BUSINESS DOMAIN; BUSINESS PROCESS; COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS; IT OUTSOURCING; IT PROVIDERS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED THEORY; PROCESS DOCUMENTATION; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

ALIGNMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870959019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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