HOW MANY VENDORS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB? MITIGATING THE RISKS OF RESOURCE DEPENDENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 311-324

  Huang, Rui ^a   Lee, Jae Nam ^b   Miranda, Shaila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Kookmin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

interorganizational relationship; IT outsourcing; number of vendor; power; resource dependency; risk; trust; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; INCANDESCENT LAMPS;

CONTRACT CONDITIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING; INTERORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; IT OUTSOURCING; NUMBER OF VENDOR; POWER; RESOURCE DEPENDENCES; RESOURCE DEPENDENCIES; TRUST; VULNERABILITY;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 48249119791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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