Research on Inter-Organizational Information Systems (IOIS) provided many insights, which, however, are very fragmented in terms of applied theories. This results in a quite isolated understanding of single aspects of IOIS rather than a comprising approach to the research subject. To address these shortcomings, the chapter investigates seven theories in respect of their explanation of IOIS adop...

According to agency theory, the interests of shareholders are safeguarded only where different people occupying the two positions of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the chairman of the board of directors. This implies that CEO duality (i.e. the CEO serves also as the board chairman) is negatively associated with corporate performance. However, empirical evidence is mixed with respect to t...

Many natural games have a dramatic difference between the quality of their best and worst Nash equilibria, even in pure strategies. Yet, nearly all results to date on dynamics in games show only convergence to some equilibrium, especially within a polynomial number of steps. In this work we initiate a theory of how well-motivated multiagent dynamics can make use of global information about the ...

The primary purpose of this chapter is to present descriptive real-life case studies of different offshore-outsourced custom software development projects (that the author has actually worked for). The first case study discusses the practical issues in two fixed-term/fixed-price custom software development projects that were offshoreoutsourced. The second case study discusses the practical issu...