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This study seeks to better understand the impact of IT vendor to firm’s IT outsourcing in Korea. Using the event study methodology, we empirically analyze the impact of IT vendor in Korea. IT vendors’ characteristics (such as services with asset specificity, size, and nationality) that may affect the success of IT outsourcing are considered. We find that IT outsourcing announcements significant...

To investigate the difficulties in the diagnosis of thyroid microcarcinoma and to present the results of delaying diagnosis for these patients, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical information of 1259 thyroid carcinoma patients in one medical center. During a period of 20 years, from January 1977 to June 1997, 1259 thyroid cancer patients, including 921 papillary thyroid carcinoma patients,...