Contracting for Collaborative Services

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 849-863

  Roels, Guillaume ^a   Karmarkar, Uday S ^b   Carr, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Law and Economics Consulting Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Consulting; Contracting; Joint production; Principal agent models; Services

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE SERVICES; CONSULTING; DESIGN CHANGE; FINANCIAL PLANNING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING; JOINT PRODUCTION; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SERVICE ENVIRONMENT; SERVICE PROCESS;

OUTSOURCING; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

SALES;

EID: 77952481779     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1146     Document Type: Article

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