This study examines the onshore/offshore decision in external software development, comparing the prediction of three theories of international trade. (1) Applying Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage, offshoring to low labor cost countries should apply mainly with large projects. (2)...

This paper examines multiple contract design choices in the context of transaction and relational attributes and consequent ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs. It focuses on two understudied themes in the IT outsourcing literature. First, while the literature is predominantly concerned with...