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Sources of Vendor Production Cost Advantages in IT Outsourcing

To date, most research on IT outsourcing concludes that firms decide to outsource IT services because they believe that outside vendors possess production cost advantages when facing environmental and technological change. Yet it is not clear…

By Natalia Levina

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