The impact of human asset specificity on the sourcing of application services

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dibbern, Jens ^a   Chin, Wynne W ^b   Heinzl, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Incomplete contracts theory; Information systems; Moderators; Outsourcing; Partial Least Squares (PLS); Property rights theory; Resource based theory; Transaction cost theory

Indexed keywords

INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PROPERTY RIGHT; RESOURCE-BASED THEORY; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

COSTS; INDUSTRY; MODERATORS; OUTSOURCING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870984180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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