Do Small and Medium-Sized IT Firms Form Service Partnerships with Nonlocal IT Firms? An Assessment of Facilitators

For small and medium-sized information technology firms (IT SMEs), the service partnerships formed with other IT firms are strategic instruments to overcome their resource constraints, increase efficiency, and offer complementary services to their customers. Although these firms have a tendency to form local partnerships due to ease of trust building, few of them are engaged in nonlocal partnerships. This research aims to explore the...