Impact of Configuration on IT Outsourcing Relationships

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3551-3560

  Alborz, Shawn ^a   Scheepers, Rens ^a   Seddon, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Configuration; Managing Outsourcing Relationships

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

CONFIGURATION; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING; MANAGING OUTSOURCING RELATIONSHIP; OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE; OUTSOURCING RELATIONSHIPS; PAPER TESTS; RESEARCH MODELS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 85032096512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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