A conjoint approach to understanding IT application services outsourcing

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 748-781

  Schwarz, Andrew ^a   Jayatilaka, Bandula ^b   Hirschheim, Rudy ^a   Goles, Tim ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Knowledge based view; Outsourcing; Resource based view; Resource dependence View; Transaction cost view

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

APPLICATION SERVICES; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; IT APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED VIEWS; RESOURCE DEPENDENCES; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; RESOURCE-DEPENDENCE VIEW; SERVICE OUTSOURCING; TRANSACTION COST; TRANSACTION COST VIEW;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 70449713568     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00209     Document Type: Article

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