Title :
Outsourcing and price-QoS equilibrium for e-commerce and Internet firms: IT on-demand
Author :
Dube, Parijat ; Liu, Zhen ; Wynter, Laura ; Xia, Cathy
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Provisioning of on-demand outsourcing capability to e-commerce firms is a pre-occupation of many companies in the IT business and a concern of many e-commerce firms. We present a framework to model the choice of outsourcing, situating it in the context of market equilibrium for e-commerce and the Internet sectors. Our framework is quite general and allows for any number of distributions on usage levels, price-QoS tradeoffs, and price and cost structures.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic commerce; outsourcing; pricing; quality of service; IT business; Internet; e-commerce; outsourcing; price-QoS equilibrium; quality of service; Business; Companies; Costs; IP networks; Internet; Outsourcing; Quality of service; Software maintenance; Virtual enterprises; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 42nd IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7924-1
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2003.1271930