Contracting Structures for Custom Software Development: The Impacts of Informational Rents and Uncertainty on Internal Development and Outsourcing

DOI10.1287/MNSC.43.12.1726zbMATH Open0896.90148OpenAlexW2053643030MaRDI QIDQ4385338FDOQ4385338

Authors: E. T. G. Wang, Terry Barron, Abraham Seidmann 

Publication date: 13 April 1998

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.43.12.1726

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zbMATH Keywords

bargainingexternalitiesoutsourcingrevelation principlesoftware developmentrelationship-specific investmentinformational asymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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