Application service provision: Origins and development

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 722-734

  Sofiane Tebboune, D E ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information systems; Outsourcing; Suppliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986017003     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150310506657     Document Type: Review

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