At the end of the nineteenth century a new transport and data infrastructure enabled the shift from small focused companies operating in market based networks towards vertical integrated companies. However during the beginning of the twenty-first century, the ICT infrastructural revolution (Internet, World Wide Web) reversed this shift by outsourcing, breaking up the vertical integrated companies again in market based loosely coupled business networks.
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Wassenaar, A., Govindaraju, R., Kijl, B. (2009). In Context Outsourcing: Between Solution Making and Context Making. In: Hirschheim, R., Heinzl, A., Dibbern, J. (eds) Information Systems Outsourcing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88851-2_11
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