ICT Contracts - Outsourcing

Published: 12 December 2008

  • PEOPLE

    Lukas Morscher
    Partner, Head of Technology and Outsourcing
    O. (eds.) Arter

  • Expertise

    Technology and Outsourcing

  • Details

    Number of pages
    240 pages
    Publisher
    Stämpfli Verlag AG
    Language
    German
    Price
    CHF 75.00
    ISBN number
    978-3-7272-9777-8

This book treats selected aspects of ICT contracts and outsourcing. It was published further to a conference on IT and law arranged by the Institute for Legal Research and Practice of the University of St. Gallen held on December 5, 2007 (11th Conference Proceedings).

Lukas Morscher sets out the structural and legal aspects of business process outsourcing (BPO). Pascal Hinny discusses the tax aspects of outsourcing transactions. Roland Mathys focuses on the transfer, maintenance and safeguarding of know-how in ICT outsourcing, and Roger Staub discusses control over the service provider. Thomas Hoeren looks at IT outsourcing and change requests. Roland M. Ryser sets out the criminal law, data protection and regulatory aspects of outsourcing, and Mark A. Reutter presents fee models in outsourcing. Hans Rudolf Trüeb concludes the conference proceedings with views on benchmarking.

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