This paper presents new evidence on the role of embeddedness in predicting contract duration in the context of Information Technology (IT) Outsourcing. Contract duration is a strategic decision that aligns interests of clients and vendors, providing the benefits of business continuity to clients...

Until very recently, grid computing was popular only in the research arena. However recent business reports suggest that enterprises are working towards implementing enterprise wide grids to share and utilize their vastly distributed computing resources. An important problem that arises in the...

Firms and organizations are increasingly using real-time performance feedback mechanisms to evaluate employees, where any employee (rather than just the supervisor) can rate other employees. Hence, a need arises to better understand how network positions of employees in such a system impact...