Are There Contagion Effects in IT and Business Process Outsourcing?

Are There Contagion Effects in IT and Business Process Outsourcing?

We model the diffusion of IT outsourcing using announcements about IT outsourcing deals. We estimate a lognormal diffusion curve to test whether IT outsourcing follows a pure diffusion process or there are contagion effects involved. The methodology permits us to study the consequences of outsourcin...

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Main Authors: MANN, A., Kauffman, Robert J., Han, K., Nault, B.R.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
Subjects:
Business processes
Contagion effects
Economic analysis
Influence models
IT services
S-curve flexible models
Outsourcing
Business
Computer Sciences
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2011.02.005
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2011.02.005

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