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An Empirical Study of Online Software Outsourcing: Signals under Different Contract Regimes
Lin, Mingfeng; Viswanathan, Siva; Agarwal, Ritu - NET Institute - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672213
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Europe's future after the European Council meeting of June 2007: A panel discussion
Bordignon, Massimo; Gros, Daniel; Roland, Gérard; … - In: CESifo Forum 8 (2007) 4, pp. 39-44
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La renégociation des contrats d’externalisation:une analyse empirique
Barthélemy, Jérôme - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 9 (2006) 2, pp. 5-29
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111220
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A Survey and Analysis of Outsourcing in East China
Fan, Tijun; Sandal, Leif K.; Kong, Jiehong; Li, Dandan - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2009
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042551
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Selected Problems of Risk Management in Outsourcing Cooperation
Malkus, Tomasz - Fakulteta za Management, Univerza na Primorskem
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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Structure, Conduct, and Performance of Principal-Agent Models: An Overview
Wei, Jong-Shin; Liu, Chwen-Chi - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 2 (2003) 3, pp. 177-178
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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Sequential communication with ex post participation constraints
Ambec, S. - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble, … - 2007
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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A theory of authority in bilateral contracting
Ambec, S. - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble, … - 2003
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...
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Agri-environmental schemes: Adverse selection, information structure and delegation
Canton, Joan; Cara, Stephane De; Jayet, Pierre-Alain - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2009
optimal contract under adverse selection is modeled. This model underlines the trade-off between information rents and …
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Moral hazard with discrete soft information.
Roger, Guillaume - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2011
I study a simple model of moral hazard with soft information. The risk-averse agent takes an action and she alone observes the stochastic outcome; hence the principal faces a problem of ex post adverse selection. With limited instruments, the principal cannot solve these two problems...
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