ICT Contracts - Outsourcing

Published: 12 December 2008

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.

1st edition 2008, 240 pages, soft cover, CHF 75, ISBN 978-3-7272-9777-8, Stämpfli Verlag AG, Bern. In German.