METRICS OF VENDOR CAPABILITIES IN OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUNCTIONS: MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1644-1652

  Sakaguchi, Toru ^a   Raghavan, Vijay V ^a  

^a NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

metrics; Offshore outsourcing; structural equation model; vendor capabilities

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

FUNCTION ANALYSIS; FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS; IT PROJECT; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; METRIC; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING; OFFSHORES; PILOT STUDIES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; VENDOR CAPABILITY;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84876695464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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