On vendor preferences for contract types in offshore software projects: The case of fixed price vs. Time and materials contracts

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 202-220

  Gopal, Anandasivam ^a   Sivaramakrishnan, Konduru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracts; Offshore software development; Profitability; Regression analysis; Software outsourcing

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENDOGENOUS SWITCHING; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; INFORMATION RENTS; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; OFFSHORE PROJECT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 57249113124     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1070.0162     Document Type: Article

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