Critical issues of offshore software development project failures

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Philip, Tom ^a   Schwabe, Gerhard ^a   Ewusi Mensah, Kweku ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical issues; Global software development; Grounded theory; Offshoring; Project failure; Project management

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ISSUES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GROUNDED THEORY; OFF-SHORING; PROJECT FAILURES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84870968238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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