Knowledge sharing and cooperation in outsourcing projects - A game theoretic analysis

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 349-358

  Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti ^a   Pathak, Praveen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative and non cooperative games; Knowledge complementarity; Knowledge management; Nash equilibrium; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; PERSONNEL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COOPERATIVE AND NON-COOPERATIVE GAMES; KNOWLEDGE COMPLEMENTARITY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NASH EQUILIBRIUM;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33846880716     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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