In traditional IT outsourcing and multisourcing arrangements, clients isolate vendor tasks, resulting in modular sourcing structures. But this approach can stifle vendor competition, result in vendor lock-in and hinder organizational flexibility. The full article describes how adidas adopted a new type of multisourcing strategy, which embraces vendor overlaps to overcome these constraints, and ...

INTRODUCTION This study compared the variability of 3D echo derived circumferential and longitudinal strain values computed from vendor-specific and vendor-independent analyses of images acquired using ultrasound systems from different vendors. METHODS Ten freshly harvested porcine hearts were studied. Each heart was mounted on a custom designed phantom and driven to simulate normal cardiac m...

What factors affect client perception of vendor preference in a crowdsourcing marketplace? We approach this question from two theoretical perspectives in this study. First, extending the knowledge of e-commerce transaction, we propose the concept of vendor-task fit in this study and test its relationship to vendor preference. Second, we posit that swift trust also influences client decisions. O...

A Many organizations consider outsourcing their information technology (IT) development projects as an attractive risk-mitigating approach. In such an engagement, the vendor may agree to complete a project for a fixed cost and according to a defined time schedule. Nevertheless, while the vendor is liable for the traditional project risks, other forms of risk may arise, which are the vend...

This is a conceptual article dealing with the role of motivated reasoning in vendor selection. The authors argue that organizational buyers’ motivated reasoning, along with the task characteristics of perceived importance and familiarity, plays an important role in determining whether an open or a closed consideration will be used for vendor selection. Based on the relationship between motivate...

Current wireless systems are called vendor-central systems because, users should subscribe to a service provider (vendor) and receive the service through the spectrum assigned to that vendor at all times. Vendorcentral systems suffer from low utility performance defined in terms of spectrum efficiency, blocking rate, and revenue. Variety dynamic channel allocation schemes have been proposed to ...