Is the business model broken? A model of the difference between pay-now and pay-later contracts in IT outsourcing

Outsourcing Management Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 344-368

  Walden, Eric ^a   Singh, Param Vir ^b,c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS)   (United States)

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EID: 84901554310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-195-7.ch019     Document Type: Chapter

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