Cloud computing (CC) is an emerging form of IT outsourcing (ITO) that requires
organizations to adjust their sourcing processes. Although ITO researchers have established …

The use of Cloud Computing Services appears to offer significant cost advantages.
Particularly start-up companies benefit from these advantages, since frequently they do not …

IT providers have heralded software-as-a-service (SaaS) as an excellent complement to on-
premises software addressing the shortcomings of previous on-demand software solutions …

The concept of software as a service (SaaS) has received considerable attention in recent
years, and an increasing number of countries have consequently promoted the SaaS …

Abstract Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is emerging as a viable outsourcing option for clients
interested in paying for the right to access a standardized set of business software functions …

Technological advances such as the creation of bandwidth, modular applications and cloud
computing have enabled the creation of a distributed collaborative sourcing model named …

Purpose–Start‐up companies in particular can benefit from cloud computing services, since
frequently they do not operate an internal IT infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to …

An examination of the services offered by application service providers (ASPs) indicates that
their current service quality needs to be improved to satisfy current and future clients. This …

Crowdsourcing is increasingly recognized as a potential approach to organizational task
solving. However, few studies have explored and statistically tested the antecedents …

Outsourcing is important in highly diversified business environments, but while there have
been many studies on outsourcing, none have explicitly tackled the problem of how SMEs …