Are There Contagion Effects in IT and Business Process Outsourcing?

• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...