When do vendors benefit from relational overnance? contracts, relational governance and vendor profitability in software development outsourcing

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gopal, Anandasivam ^a   Koka, Balaji R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracts; Exchange hazards; Regression analysis; Relational governance; Software development; Software development outsourcing

Indexed keywords

RELATIONAL GOVERNANCE; SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE VENDORS;

CONTRACTS; HAZARDS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84870967119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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