Professional versus Political Contexts: Institutional Mitigation and the Transaction Cost Heuristic in Information Systems Outsourcing

Abstract

IS research has considered the outsourcing decision from the perspective of transaction cost economics (TCE) and institutional theory. In this research, we consider how the appropriation of the logic of transaction cost economics is contin

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IT non-conformity in institutional environments: E-marketplace adoption in the government sector

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“…We are certainly not the first to apply TCE to IT governance decisions. A similar theoretical orientation is for instance present in the work of Ang & Straub (1998), Aubert et al (2003), Barthélemy and Geyer (2005), Langfield-Smith & Smith (2003), Miranda & Kim (2006), and Tiwana & Bush (2007). The results of these studies, however, are inconsistent, especially with regard to the effects of asset specificity.…”

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