Applying main path analysis, this paper investigates the IT outsourcing (ITO) field by
identifying a set of papers that have played a central role in the development of the field and …

Outsourcing has become one of the strategies adopted by businesses to manage their IS.
During the last few years, the use of outsourcing has resulted in an increase in the volume of …

Blockchain has the potential to improve the efficiency and transparency of maritime
businesses and operations. Nevertheless, few studies have been conducted to identify the …

The study highlights how digital marketing is often detrimental, when it is done by unskilled
service providers. It highlights how the hyped services of search engine marketing (SEM) …

Longstanding assumptions underlying strategic alliances, such as agency theory, are
actively being revoked by dynamics in the new economy. The mechanism of inter-firm …

IT providers have heralded software-as-a-service (SaaS) as an excellent complement to on-
premises software addressing the shortcomings of previous on-demand software solutions …

Despite a decade since the inception of B2C e-commerce, the uncertainty of the online
environment still makes many consumers reluctant to engage in online exchange …

Purpose By revisiting the agency theory literature, this paper aims to both incrementally
advance historical viewpoints and reveal four prominent influences on agency theory …

This paper proposes an agency model for headquarters-subsidiary relationships in
multinational organizations with headquarters as the principal and the subsidiary as the …

Purpose–Many organizations are outsourcing their information technology (IT) related
services to a third party vendor for quite some time. However, the IT services industry …