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)...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify a typology of procurement contracts in the context of software development projects that allows firms to align design flexibility with design uncertainty at the project level. The theoretical lenses of contract theory and software engineering...

We study contract design choices affecting the complexity of outsourcing contracts, defined by the number and stringency of contract provisions employed, using 262 software development outsourcing contracts from a large European bank. Unlike extant research, we study the complexity of specific...

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...

Digital business models are often designed for rapid growth, and some relatively young companies have indeed achieved global scale. However, despite the visibility and importance of this phenomenon, analysis of scale and scalability remains underdeveloped in management literature. When it is...

Purpose – This study is an attempt to contribute to an emerging stream of research, which attempts to explore how work commitment forms affect one another and how together they serve to influence work behaviour and outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on five universal forms of...

Trust is the enabler of social interaction. Although the origins of research on trust traditionally lie outside the Information Systems (IS) domain, the importance of trust for IS research rapidly grew in the late 1990s, and it is still growing with the increasing ubiquity and advancement of...