A State-Transition Approach to Application Service Provider Client-Vendor Relationship Development

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 8-25

  Yao, Yurong ^a   Murphy, Lisa ^b  

^a SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

ASP; Capability; Conflict Resolution; Credibility; Dependence; Expectations Match; IT Contracts; Outsourcing; Relationship Development; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751171934     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1080390.1080393     Document Type: Article

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