Characteristics of IT outsourcing contracts

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Aubert, B ^a,c   Houde, J F ^b,c   Patry, M ^a,c   Rivard, S ^a,c  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CIRANO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASSET SPECIFICITY; CRITICAL ELEMENTS; IT OUTSOURCING; MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS; RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; SERVICE PROVIDER; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 84969528855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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