Social capital and contract duration in buyer-supplier networks for information technology outsourcing

Information Systems Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 379-397

  Ravindran, Kiron ^a   Susarla, Anjana ^b   Mani, Deepa ^c   Gurbaxani, Vijay ^d  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contract design; IT outsourcing; Reputation; Social capital

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONTRACT DESIGN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORK; IT OUTSOURCING; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; RELATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS; REPUTATION; SOCIAL CAPITALS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84952766769     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2015.0572     Document Type: Article

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