<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>With the development of software outsourcing industry, there is a growing trend to establish the software outsourcing alliances. Whether alliances’ profit distribution is reasonable affects directly and significantly alliances’ stability. This paper introduces the Shapley value method which is a common profit distribution method applicable to multiple people cooperation. Due to the weakness of the Shapley value method, AHP is used to analyze the influence factors and adjust the model. The anticipated outcome of the result is to provide a theoretical support for the profit distribution of the software outsourcing alliances in the future.</p></abstract>

With the development of software outsourcing industry, there is a growing trend to establish the software outsourcing alliances. Whether alliances’ profit distribution is reasonable affects directly and significantly alliances’ stability. This paper introduces the Shapley value method which is a common profit distribution method applicable to multiple people cooperation. Due to the weakness of the Shapley value method, AHP is used to analyze the influence factors and adjust the model. The anticipated outcome of the result is to provide a theoretical support for the profit distribution of the software outsourcing alliances in the future.

Research on Profit Distribution of Software Outsourcing Alliances Based on the Improved Shapley Value Model

School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

With the development of software outsourcing industry, there is a growing trend to establish the software outsourcing alliances. Whether alliances’ profit...

Research on Profit Distribution of Software Outsourcing Alliances Based on the Improved Shapley Value Model

Published Online: Dec 31, 2013

Page range: 100 - 109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2013-0041

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