The myths and realities of information technology insourcing

Communications of the ACMPublished 1 February 2000Open access

Rudy Hirschheim, Mary C. Lacity

DOI10.1145/328236.328112

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As the market evolves, a number of important aspects of these IT outsourcing decisions have been explored and can be categorized as descriptive case studies and surveys of the current outsourcing practices.

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