Old and New Paradigms for IT Services Offshoring

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 47-64

  Popoli, Paolo ^a   Popoli, Arturo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business IT Strategy; IT Offshoring; IT Outsourcing; Outsourcing Decision; Relational View; Strategic Sourcing; Transaction Cost Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001720460     PISSN: 19355688     EISSN: 19355696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jisss.2009070104     Document Type: Article

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