This paper presents new evidence on the role of embeddedness in predicting contract duration in the context of Information Technology (IT) Outsourcing. Contract duration is a strategic decision that aligns interests of clients and vendors, providing the benefits of business continuity to clients and incentives to undertake relationship specific investments for vendors. Considering the salience ...

Existing research in the social network and alliance literatures shows that the embedding of alliance activity in the network structure that results from prior partnerships influences patterns of new tie formation, but has not examined whether such network embeddedness affects the failure rate of the ties that are formed. We focus empirically on the unplanned dissolution of joint ventures betwe...

THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT OF ANTICIPATED WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT ON THE STEM MAJOR EMBEDDEDNESS OF MEN AND WOMEN Dante P. Myers Old Dominion University, 2015 Director: Dr. Debra A. Major It is nationally concerning that many students who begin as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors do not complete their degrees. Of additional concern is that among the STEM students who do ...

This paper explicitly clarifies an employee’s goal to voluntarily stay in his/her current employment. A large volume of research has concentrated on corporate environments the causes workforce turnover. Nevertheless, little was done investigate workers’ desire remain, which essential parameter determining their construction sector. Therefore, this undertaken explore relationship between job emb...

Relational and structural embeddedness are reported to play an important role in the context of information technology outsourcing (ITO). However, we do not fully understand which of the two types of embeddedness is more appropriate in preventing opportunistic behaviour and improving long-term performance in the presence of uncertainty which is not uniform across a wide range of outsourced IT s...