Journal
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 533-542Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2004.02.005
Keywords
MIS management; outsourcing; France; Germany
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An increasingly large number of firms outsource their information technology (IT). Firms that contemplate such outsourcing have two alternatives: (1) a. contract with a vendor (i.e., outsourcing) or (2) setting up their own IT subsidiary (i.e., quasi-outsourcing). This study examines some of the determinants of the outsourcing versus quasi-outsourcing decision. Using primary data collected in France and Germany, we show that the decision is strongly influenced by both internal (i.e., asset-specificity, size, and internal organization of IT) and external (i.e., institutional environment) determinants. (c) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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