Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a R&D outsourcing contract design framework to incent R&D outsourcing … that when the effort costs of explicit and tacit knowledge sharing are mutually complementary the multitask R&D outsourcing … contract can incent tacit knowledge sharing. Moreover, the multitask R&D outsourcing contract can motivate the effort of …

come to rely upon other corporations, whose core competencies are expertise in each specific business. Outsourcing is …. Within outsourcing operations and their management, the role of knowledge and trust is critical, especially with the growth … of strategic outsourcing. Therefore the article focuses on the concept of trust, trying to analyse its roots and its …