Knowledge-intensive outsourcing alliances present a tension between sharing enough private knowledge to successfully accomplish alliance goals and simultaneously safeguarding it against misappropriation. This paper explores the perspective that modularity complements outsourcee ignorance. Put...

Although control is presumed to be necessary to curb opportunism, its implementation in alliances can be costly and challenging. Paradoxically, some contemporary firms have counterintuitively developed successful alliances without extensive formal control. A widespread but untested assertion...

As outsourcing evolves into a competitive necessity, managers must increasingly contend with the decision about which software development projects to outsource. Although a variety of theories have been invoked to study the initial outsourcing decision, much of this work has relied in isolation...

The black-box model of software development outsourcing is prevalent and usually works well. The assumption embedded in this approach is that the vendor can successfully solve a client organization's business problem without either organization having to deeply understand each others' domains....

While the normative logic for forming technology outsourcing alliances is that such alliances allow outsourcing firms to specialize deeper in their domain of core competence without being distracted by non-core activities, recent empirical studies have reported the puzzling phenomenon of some...