• DocumentCode
    3500260
  • Title

    The Theoretical Research on Contracts in IT Service Industry

  • Author

    Chen Xi ; Fu Ye

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage., Fudan Univ., Shanghai
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2007
  • Firstpage
    3274
  • Lastpage
    3276
  • Abstract
    In the IT service industry, contracts provide effective mechanisms for managing the outsourcing relationship. Meanwhile ,the service quality is an important aspect in the IT service, but in the research of the outsourcing and in the practice, the service quality was paid little attention and uncertain. This paper construct a model based on principal-agent theory, and elicit the optimal contract, then analyze the relation between the type of the IT service and the requirement of the service quality.
  • Keywords
    contracts; outsourcing; service industries; IT service industry; contracts; outsourcing; principal-agent theory; service quality; Delay; Forward contracts; Incentive schemes; Industrial relations; Information systems; Information technology; Outsourcing; Waste materials;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1311-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WICOM.2007.811
  • Filename
    4340586