Contracts in Offshore Software Development: An Empirical Analysis
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چکیده
Anandasivam Gopal • Konduru Sivaramakrishnan • M. S. Krishnan Tridas Mukhopadhyay Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 University of Michigan Business School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 [email protected] • [email protected] [email protected] • [email protected]
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Management Science
دوره 49 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003