This paper focuses on contractual provisions in external sourcing of innovative services. Such agreements require protection of key knowledge assets, whilst simultaneously providing incentives for heuristic search to enable problem solving and knowledge transfer. We conceptualize two distinct...

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...