By adopting the multi-vendor approach, clients may increase their bargaining power and enhance performance. In addition, clients avoid lock-in by having ...

We conclude with theoretical contributions in the area of social relation theory and IT outsourcing literature, and implications for practices on how clients ...

The growing trend of engaging multiple vendors, coupled with the concern over “possible” loss of knowledge in information technology (IT) outsourcing ...

Social relation has been conceptualized in terms of how organizational relationships with social entities facilitate and/or inhibit organizational learning. In ...

There is empirical evidence that the choice between single sourcing and multisourcing is material to the performance of outsourcing contracts as an ...

This research-in-progress study tries to investigate how three critical dimensions - structural, affective and cognitive - in social relations are associated ...

Effect of multi-vendor outsourcing on organizational learning: A social relation perspective. Yunmo Koo, Jae-Nam Lee, Cheng-Suang Heng, Jihun Park.

This research-in-progress study tries to investigate how three critical dimensions - structural, affective and cognitive - in social relations are ...

This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of ...

Yunmo Koo and Jae-Nam Lee, “Effect of Multi-Vendor Outsourcing on Organizational Learning: A Social Relation Perspective,” KrAIS Workshop at the 2015 ...