Risk/cost valuation of fixed price it outsourcing in a portfolio context

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fridgen, Gilbert ^a   Mueller, Hanna Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision model; IT sourcing portfolio management; Outsourcing; Portfolio selection; Risk Cost valuation; Software development projects

Indexed keywords

DECISION MODELS; FIXED PRICES; IT OUTSOURCING; IT PROJECT; OPTIMAL OUTSOURCING; OUTSOURCE; OUTSOURCING STRATEGY; OVERALL COSTS; PORTFOLIO DECISIONS; PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENTS; PORTFOLIO SELECTION; REAL WORLD DATA; RISK-ADJUSTED; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870959472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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