This paper examines renegotiation design in contracts for outsourced information technology (IT) services. Whereas prior literature in information systems has highlighted the likelihood of ex post rent seeking engendered by renegotiation, we build upon literature on incomplete contracts to posit...

Firms use formal contracts as governance devices to manage their inter-organizational relationships. We examine 52 such contracts written for Information Technology (IT) services to investigate whether they possess properties as suggested by contract theory. We combine constructs from...

The accumulated evidence indicates that pure revenue models, such as free-access models (where the revenue is solely dependent on advertisements) or pure subscription fee based models (where the revenue is solely based on subscription fees, and advertisements are not shown to customers), are not...

An important problem that arises in the area of grid computing is one of optimally assigning jobs to resources to achieve a business objective. In the grid computing area, however, such scheduling has mostly been done from the perspective of maximizing the utilization of resources. As this form...