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reputation, certification, and language characteristics on the chances of winning outsourcing contracts. Using a comprehensive … dataset from an online outsourcing marketplace, we model how buyers choose among bidding vendors, and how the effects of these … variables change under different contract forms. Our results show that online reputation is an important predictor of success …
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One of the basic assumptions of outsourcing contracts is the reduction of cooperation risk between the client and the … achievement of results of cooperation in outsourcing. The objective of the paper is to present selected problems concerning risk … management in outsourcing cooperation. Types of risk, solutions concerning risk-sharing between client and service provider are …
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-term contract, the total outsourcing has a significant correlation coefficient with long-term contract at the level of =0.05. The …The aim of this study is to investigate whether outsourcing activities in east china are associated with a theoretical … survey indicate that outsourcing will more extensively practiced in the future, the principal outsourcing motivation are to …
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outsourcing contract and the number of renegotiations is straightforward. Older contracts are more likely to require adjustments … is to understand why some firms renegotiate their outsourcing contracts. The relationship between the age of the … examined. This paper finds that the positive relationship between the age of outsourcing contracts and the number of …
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optimal contract under adverse selection is modeled. This model underlines the trade-off between information rents and …
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This prelude introduces the first symposium of this journal devoted to the structure, conduct, and performance of principal-agent models in a broad view. Five papers, exemplifying recent developments and targeting readers of interdisciplinary interest, are summarized.
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Two players are involved in a joint project during which a decision must be reached. Each player has private information about future profits. Authority gives one player the right to decide first in a pre-defined set of alternatives. In this framework, I show that (partial) authority should be...
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The paper examines the implementation of Bayesian allocation rules that satisfy non-negative ex post payoffs for one player in a two-players bilateral asymmetric information setting. It focuses on sequential mechanisms in which players communicate in turn among themselves. First, it shows that,...
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Two players are involved in a joint project during which a decision must be reached. Each player has a private information about future profits. Authority gives to a player the right to decide first among a pre-defined set of alternatives. In this framework, I show that (partial) authority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176773