Producing comfort: Risk, anxiety and trust in the development of an is offshoring relationship

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kelly, Séamas ^a   Noonan, Camilla ^a   Sé, Micheál Ó ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Oileán Enterprises   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; IS offshoring; Relationship work; Risk; Trust

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CORE TECHNOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; FINANCIAL SERVICE; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INTERPRETIVE STUDY; OFF-SHORING; OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT; OUTSOURCE; OUTSOURCING PARTNERSHIP; PROJECT DYNAMICS; RELATIONSHIP WORK; TRUST;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISKS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870962935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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