Are there contagion effects in information technology and business process outsourcing?

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 864-874

  Mann, Arti ^a   Kauffman, Robert J ^b,c   Han, Kunsoo ^d   Nault, Barrie R ^e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business processes; Contagion effects; Economic analysis; Influence models; IT services; Outsourcing; S curve flexible models

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONTAGION EFFECTS; INFLUENCE MODEL; IT SERVICES; S-CURVE;

DIFFUSION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRY; OUTSOURCING; RATING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 80052957767     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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