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

Using two-part tariff under mutual outsourcing between symmetric downstream firms, we demonstrate endogenous choice of … vertical structure with each exclusive channel. Recent market structure captures that the mutual outsourcing has become a … competition has the same endogenous choice of vertical separation with mutual outsourcing, social welfare, consumer surplus and …

analysis of our testable predictions using pharmaceutical data concerning patents, patent expiration, and outsourcing at …

multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications …

core functions provided the cost of outsourcing is not too high. In this paper, we build a model to show how contraction in … out to say, India (abroad). We identify the conditions under which switching from pure domestic production to outsourcing …

modern societies. Despite the growing need, many households refrain from outsourcing their domestic chores to the market …