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Risks, Relationships and Success Factors in IT Outsourcing

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In this chapter are described IT outsourcing services, IT outsourcing types, total versus selective IT outsourcing, single versus multiple providers, and how to select IT outsourcing provider. Additionally, this chapter includes the theories in IT outsourcing used in this research and also the risks, relationships and success factors in IT outsourcing that are our research goals.

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    Georg Hodosi & Lazar Rusu

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Hodosi, G., Rusu, L. (2019). Research Background. In: Risks, Relationships and Success Factors in IT Outsourcing. SpringerBriefs in Information Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05925-5_2

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