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Agent takeover risk of principal in outsourcing relationships

Bhimani, Alnoor ORCID: 0000-0002-1884-5840, Hausken, Kjell and Ncube, Mthuli (2010) Agent takeover risk of principal in outsourcing relationships. Global Business and Economics Review, 12 (4). pp. 329-340. ISSN 1097-4954

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Identification Number: 10.1504/GBER.2010.036057

Abstract

The provision of outsourcing services creates relationships between knowledge vested with the supplier and the viability of outsourcing arrangements. Knowledge accumulation by the outsourcee can reach a level where it poses a market entry or takeover risk to the outsourcer. Knowledge translates into cash flows interpreted as asset values modelled as geometric Brownian motion accounting for uncertainty, drift, and volatility. We present this argument within a principal-agent theoretical perspective which embeds a real options analysis to represent risk growth. As an alternative to a complicated analysis of the benefits and costs to the agent and principal of a takeover, we propose that takeover of the principal by the agent can be expected if the agent's discounted cash flows is larger than the principal's discounted cash flows. The probability of the takeover of the principal's market by the agent is expressed as an 'optimal stopping time' probability problem.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journ...
Additional Information: © 2010 Inderscience
Divisions: Accounting
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Date Deposited: 19 Nov 2010 09:38
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2024 23:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30009

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