The normative value of transaction cost economics: What managers have learned about TCE principles in the it context

Information Systems Outsourcing (Second Edition): Enduring Themes, New Perspectives and Global Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 259-282

  Poppo, Laura ^a   Lacity, Mary C ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-34877-1_10     Document Type: Chapter

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