{"id":"W3124165992","doi":"","title":"Are There Contagion Effects in IT and Business Process Outsourcing","year":2010,"lang":"en","type":"article","venue":"SSRN Electronic Journal","topic":"Firm Innovation and Growth","field":"Economics, Econometrics and Finance","cited_by":1,"is_retracted":false,"has_abstract":true,"ca_institutions":"University of Calgary; McGill University","funders":"","keywords":"Outsourcing; Diffusion; Industrial organization; Business; Gompertz function; Log-normal distribution; Knowledge process outsourcing; Consistency (knowledge bases); Econometrics; Process (computing); Economics; Microeconomics; Monetary economics; Marketing; Statistics; Computer science; Mathematics","routes":{"ca_aff":true,"ca_fund":false,"ca_venue":false,"about_ca":false,"invisible_to_affiliation_only":false},"retraction":null,"screen":null,"direct_labels":[],"prediction":{"model_version":"metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061c","candidate_categories":[],"consensus_categories":[],"category_scores_codex":[0.003336725,0.0008328493,0.001017092,0.001630165,0.0008231308,0.002928323,0.001286552,0.003108362,0.004610386],"category_scores_gemma":[0.01924459,0.0008342786,0.001640867,0.001112472,0.002224857,0.004775122,0.002265399,0.001959889,0.0005256372],"about_ca_system_candidate":false,"about_ca_system_consensus":false,"about_ca_system_score_codex":0.002090458,"about_ca_system_score_gemma":0.00109406,"about_ca_topic_candidate":false,"about_ca_topic_consensus":false,"about_ca_topic_score_codex":0.02428916,"about_ca_topic_score_gemma":0.01284417,"domain_scores_codex":[0.9988019,0.0004636102,0.00006816266,0.0002373753,0.0001401657,0.0002887795],"domain_scores_gemma":[0.9825737,0.01217937,0.003375911,0.0005145843,0.0006658841,0.0006906385],"domain_codex":null,"domain_gemma":null,"domain_candidate":null,"domain_consensus":null,"study_design_codex":"simulation_or_modeling","study_design_gemma":"observational","study_design_scores_codex":[0.0004929968,0.0004835944,0.1284598,0.0002507266,0.0005525044,0.001332671,0.003406503,0.5733887,0.003262865,0.2555551,0.001680059,0.0311345],"study_design_scores_gemma":[0.0001026509,0.0001673584,0.01502491,0.00006692066,0.0002449455,0.000199063,0.0006642293,0.9105734,0.0007063745,0.06992581,0.002235022,0.00008937789],"study_design_candidate":"observational","study_design_consensus":null,"genre_codex":"empirical","genre_gemma":"empirical","genre_scores_codex":[0.8856773,0.00157216,0.09311421,0.005611348,0.00007223675,0.0001557323,0.0002206603,0.000156253,0.01342005],"genre_scores_gemma":[0.9926662,0.0007563456,0.002946311,0.00008768011,0.00004658916,0.00005983194,0.00007265763,0.00001685014,0.003347447],"genre_candidate":"empirical","genre_consensus":"empirical","teacher_disagreement_score":0.02428916,"threshold_uncertainty_score":0.04829556,"prediction_status":"machine_predicted_unvalidated"},"machine_scores":{"provisional":true,"baseline":true,"maturity_gate_passed":false,"score_opus":0.009806775009072509,"score_gpt":0.2153650367741334,"score_spread":0.2055582617650609,"validation_status":"score_only:v0-immature-baseline","note":"Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed). Scores rank; they never assert a category."}}