This paper presents a review of existing theoretical perspectives and empirical work on strategic IT outsourcing. By presenting the main findings of various recent studies and elaborating on current research gaps it conveys a picture of the past research, the present findings and the future applications of IT outsourcing. Prior research has generated theoretical insights and largely qualitative evidence on IT outsourcing. While quantitative studies remain sparse, limited to decision making and performance, there is a lack of quantitative empirical research examining outsourcing processes more comprehensively. This paper outlines a simple, yet integrative process model and develops propositions, which serve to integrate and compare theoretical strands, to evaluate existing empirical research and to stimulate new avenues of empirical research.Strategic outsourcing, IT services, stocktaking, empirical challenges,
Several aspects of social and emotional functioning are abnormal in people with eating disorders. The aim of the present study was to measure facial emotional expression in patients with eating disorders and healthy controls whilst playing a therapeutic video game (Playmancer) designed to train individuals in emotional regulation. Participants were 23 ED patients (11 AN, 12 BN) and 11 HCs. ED patients self reported more anger at baseline but expressed less facial expression of anger during the Playmancer game. The discrepancy between self-report and non-verbal expression may lead to problems in social communication.
Previous studies of stock market reactions to alliance announcements assume that investors accurately detect and encode these public statements, evaluate them with stable, well-established preferences, and that the signalling value of an announcement is independent of the context in which it is conveyed.This article draws on behavioural decision theory to advance a cognitive model of stock market reactions to the announcement of complex, multi-firm alliances. The model predicts a U-shaped relationship between the diversity of partners comprising the alliance and abnormal stock market returns. An empirical analysis of multi-firm alliances announced in the US between 2000 and 2004 corroborates the model's prediction. Moreover, the study shows that a firm's size and analyst coverage moderate the relationship between its alliance partners' diversity and its abnormal returns.These findings suggest that attentional selection and subsequent encoding processes produce cognitive biases in the interpretation of announcements and the market moves towards greater efficiency for large or high-coverage firms. Managers should thus take the effect of the `process of processing' into account when disclosing information to the investor community.
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