Are there contagion effects in information technology and business process outsourcing?

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: MANN, Arti, KAUFFMAN, Robert J., HAN, Kunsoo, NAULT, Barrie R.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• الموضوعات: Business processes; Contagion effects; Economic analysis; Influence models; IT services; Outsourcing; S-curve flexible models; Databases and Information Systems; Management Information Systems
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3230; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4232/viewcontent/8539914.pdf
• المؤسسة: 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...