IT outsourcing in tourism businesses in the UK: Decision-making approach

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sourenkova, Tatiana ^a   Louvieris, Panos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IT outsourcing; tourism; benefits; risks; decision making

Indexed keywords

IT OUTSOURCING; IT RESOURCES; RESEARCH STUDIES; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY;

DECISION MAKING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OUTSOURCING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871009018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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