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Information technology impact sourcing

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New ways to contract IT work to base-of-the-pyramid suppliers.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 12
December 2013
102 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2534706
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