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A two-level investigation of information systems outsourcing
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Volume 39 ,  Issue 7  (July 1996) table of contents
Pages: 36 - 44  
Year of Publication: 1996
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
Kichan Nam  Dong-Guk Univ., Seoul, South Korea
S. Rajagopalan
H. Raghav Rao  State Univ. of New York, Buffalo
A. Chaudhury  Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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The authors opened a two-level investigation of IT outsourcing based on the initial outsourcing decision and the continuing relationships between clients and outsourcing firms. They posed three research questions: What are the dimensions of ou  more...

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