Combining transaction cost and resource-based insights to explain IT implementation outsourcing

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 631-645

  Alvarez Suescun, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

'Make or buy' decisions; Firm boundaries; Human resource information systems; Resource based theories; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

FIRM BOUNDARIES; HUMAN RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAKE-OR-BUY; RESOURCE-BASED THEORY; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS;

COSTS;

EID: 78650177870     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-010-9237-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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