While inter-personal conflicts have attracted much attention from scholars and practitioners over the last two decades, our understanding of inter-organizational conflicts remains limited. This paper critically assesses current literature on inter-organizational conflicts. We first discuss the...

Notwithstanding the popularity of outsourcing as a business strategy, the performance benefits realized through outsourcing efforts are observed to be mixed in practice. This leads to important unresolved questions regarding why some firms are able to derive substantial value from their...

We examine whether prior offshoring experience relates to future sourcing location decisions - specifically, whether to source from offshore or domestic providers - for outsourced activities. We also examine the factors differentiating the location decisions of management teams with more or less...