The Psychological Contract as an Integrative Governance Instrument of the Legal Outsourcing Contract

Franca Cantoni, Alessandro Zardini () and Cecilia Rossignoli ()
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Alessandro Zardini: Università degli Studi di Verona
Cecilia Rossignoli: Università degli Studi di Verona

A chapter in Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control, 2014, pp 191-203 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Outsourcing is a managerial procedure whose success needs clarification regarding the long-term relationship between customer and supplier. The authors’ aim is to examine simultaneously the client’s and supplier’s perspectives through the psychological contract that, by assimilating the contents of the legal contract, focuses on (1) the implicit (not formalized) and reciprocal (mutual) duties between the two parties, (2) the equivalence of psychological obligations and contractual values and (3) the importance of the individual commitment level. While the legal contract is managed and based on an organizational level, the psychological contract is individual and perceived as such: from the authors’ point of view, all workers, regardless of whether they work inside or outside the company, are part of the psychological contract. The authors employ a case study represented by an outsourcing center belonging to a group of Italian banks, using the “qualitative and quantitative” mixed method. In the first phase, a series of interviews will help identify the key variables to develop a questionnaire for both customers and suppliers. The second phase will comprise the interviews and questionnaire formalization. The two themes, the psychological contract on the one hand and the outsourcing governance on the other hand, represent a highly relevant matter that has received scant attention in the literature.

Keywords: Outsourcing; Psychological contract; Case study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07905-9_13

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