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Can I read From the Editors on EtoBox?
From the Editors by Wynne W. Chin; Dorothy Leidner is a Business, Management and Accounting article available to read on EtoBox.
What is From the Editors about?
For our last issue of the year, we are pleased to present a survey review of Information Systems Outsourcing by Dibbern, Goles, Hirschheim, and Jayatilaka. It can arguably be said that the demand for better understanding of this phenomenon has only increased in importance as Indian technology-outsourcing companies such as Wipro, Tata and Infosys continue to report revenue growths of 44%, 44% and 52% respectively based in part on strong business from US companies (Wall Street Journal, B1, October 18, 2004). At the same time, the general issue of outsourcing has clearly seeped into the public consciousness in the US to the extent that it has become a standard talking point among politicians. With the over 15 years of academic research that our field has produced in this area, it seems reasonable that we take a moment to reflect and produce a scholarly review that provides both a comprehensive and integrative framework for understanding the diverse set of studies to date. We are glad that the authors took up this task in response to our earlier call to researchers to consider Data Base as an outlet for framework and review papers. Equally important is the fact that they did not treat
Who reads From the Editors?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Business, Management and Accounting.
- Author
- Wynne W. Chin; Dorothy Leidner
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)