Outsourcing: A Librarian and Vendor Perspective

Outsourcing versus joint venture from vendorメs perspective

Even though many studies have discussed outsourcing contracts from the client’s perspective, little research has been done from the vendor’s perspective. In this paper, we consider a vendor’s outsourcing contract decision-making process, during which the market price and the vendor’s operation cost are uncertain. This paper develops real option models to investigate whether a vendor firm should...

Influential Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship in a Swedish Municipality: A Client and Vendor Perspective

Vendor opportunism in IT outsourcing: a TCE and social capital perspective

Academic researchers have attributed significant attention to the drivers of opportunistic behavior, yet our understanding of how opportunistic behavior can be mitigated remains relatively fragmented. Our investigation will focus on the social context and more specifically on the role of social capital in the deterrence of opportunistic behavior. Based on two qualitative case studies in the fin...

Multi-Vendor Outsourcing: Relational Structures and Organizational Learning From a Social Relation Perspective

The increasing trend of engaging multiple vendors, coupled with the concern for “possible” loss of knowledge in outsourcing relationship, compels us to investigate organizational learning in multi-vendor outsourcing from a social relation perspective. The nature of social relation has been conceptualized in terms of how organizational relationships with social entities facilitate and/or inhibit...

A Capability Maturity Model of Information Technology Outsourcing Relationships: a Vendor Perspective

Information technology outsourcing relationships between clients and suppliers are generally embedded into formal contracts. The empirical literature on contracting usually assumes that contractual completeness is difficult to achieve due to the transaction costs of describing—or of even foreseeing—the possible states of nature in advance. Little research has been done on the on-going set of pr...