Paper Info
Title
Is Transaction Cost Economics Theory Able to Explain Contracts Used for and Success of Firm-Wide IT-Infrastructure Outsourcing?
Abstract
Transaction cost economics (TCE) is much used in outsourcing research. We applied two TCE attributes - asset specificity and frequency - to characterise IT infrastructure services and to indicate what type of outsourcing contracts should be concluded. We classified outsourcing contracts of 213 enterprises to determine if TCE contracting recommendations were followed, and if outsourcing succeeded better when the contract type matched the IT infrastructure service characteristics. Results reveal that enterprises do not follow TCE contract recommendations. They probably should. In application services the match of contract type and service characteristics was positively related to absolute IT outsourcing success.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/HICSS.2007.302
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
application service,firm-wide it-infrastructure outsourcing,explain contracts,tce contract recommendation,tce attribute,tce contracting recommendation,it infrastructure service,it infrastructure service characteristic,outsourcing research,transaction cost,economics theory able,outsourcing contract,contract type,absolute it outsourcing success,economics,outsourcing
Asset specificity,Transaction cost,Computer science,Microeconomics,Knowledge management,Outsourcing,Information technology management,Industrial organization,Knowledge process outsourcing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2755-8
5
0.46
References 
Authors
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mari Nyrhinen1211.87
Tomi Dahlberg226215.13