Theoretical Perspectives on the Outsourcing of Information Systems
本文整合了资源基础理论、资源依赖理论、交易成本理论和代理理论，构建了一个外包权变模型，用于指导企业外包策略的实证研究。
Critics have argued that the field of information systems (IS) lacks a coherent theoretical framework. This paper attempts to further the theoretical development of a critical and pervasive contemporary phenomenon, outsourcing of IS functions, by synthesizing four theoretical models (resource-based theory, resource-dependence theory, transaction cost theory and agency theory) that are useful for understanding determinants of a firm's outsourcing strategy. From these theoretical models, a contingency model of outsourcing is developed which can be used to direct empirical research.