MANAGING VENDOR-CLIENT EXPECTATIONS IN IT OUTSOURCING: A PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT PERSPECTIVE

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 512-517

  Koh, Christine ^a   Tay, Cheryl ^a   Ang, Soon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

CLIENT EXPECTATIONS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; IT OUTSOURCING; MIXED METHOD; OUTSOURCING RELATIONSHIPS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84984994676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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