Boundary spanning by design: Insights from a vendor perspective

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Du, Wenyu ^a   Pan, Shan L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Case study; It outsourcing; Organizational strategy

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SPANNING; BOUNDARY-SPANNING PRACTICES; CONTRACT MANAGEMENT; DATA COLLECTION; IT OUTSOURCING; ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY; RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870959560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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