Principal agent theory and its application to analyze outsourcing of software development

7th International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research, EDSER 2005 - International Conference on Software Engineering 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Keil, Patrick ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Outsourcing; Principal agent theory

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CONTRACTORS; ECONOMICS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE; ITS APPLICATIONS; PRINCIPAL-AGENT THEORY; PROCESS MODEL; RE-TURN-ON; TOOL SUPPORT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 70249126127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083091.1083094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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