Bringing IT back: An analysis of the decision to backsource or switch vendors

Decision Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 605-621

  Whitten, Dwayne ^a   Leidner, Dorothy ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backsourcing; Outsourcing; Product quality; Relationship quality; Service quality; Switching costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845459676     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2006.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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