Vicious and virtuous circles of offshoring attitudes and relational behaviours. A configurational study of German IT developers
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Offshoring attitudes, relational behaviours, and departmental culture
The success of IT offshoring depends to some extent on the working relationships between onshore and offshore colleagues. However, as part of an organisational department‟s culture, employees can hold different attitudes towards offshoring and towards their own offshore collaboration. Previous research suggests that such „offshoring attitudes‟ can influence subgroup divides and thereby affect e...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Inf. Syst. J.
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013