Offshore Outsourcing: New Spin Or Same Old Business
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Institutional factors affecting offshore business process and information technology outsourcing
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1547-5840,1547-5867
DOI: 10.28945/947