Information Technology (IT) Outsourcing. Contract duration is a strategic decision that aligns interests of clients and vendors … managing longer-term contracts. Second, the network serves as a reputation system that can stratify vendors according to their … trustworthiness and reliability, which is important in longer term arrangements. We analyze a dataset of 22039 outsourcing contracts …

outsourcing client. We portray reputation formation as a process wherein an IT supplier alternately emits signals of quality and …One noticeable trend in a maturing Information Technology (IT) outsourcing industry is the growing interest from client … firms to benefit from supplier-led innovations. Yet, IT outsourcing suppliers still find it challenging to shift their …