"When do you ASP?" The Software Life Cycle Control Model

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-232

  Serva, Mark A ^a   Sherer, Susan A ^b   Sipior, Janice C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application service provision; Outsourcing; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OUTSOURCING;

APPLICATION SERVICE PROVISION (ASP); CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM); TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS (TCE);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037226669     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022613925874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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