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Outsourcing Information Technology: The Role of Social Capital

The current article explores the role that one factor, social capital, may have on the success of IT outsourcing. This article extends current understanding of outsourcing success and failure by examining the effect of social capital on outsourcing success. In the article it is proposed that social capital has potential impact on information technology (IT) outsourcing success. Specifically, it is theorized that social capital has an inverted “U” shape relationship with outsourcing success.