Developing offshore outsourcing practices in a global selective outsourcing environment – the IT supplier’s viewpoint
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چکیده
Currently, internal IT organizations use outsourcing and offshore arrangements to achieve cost savings gain access new capabilities. It was found that suppliers’ personnel at the operational level can face challenges with internalizing their operations based on agreed practices transferred responsibilities. This study gives voice supplier studies impact of operation development activities. The unit from Nokia Devices selectively outsourced global service activities responsibilities supplier. were implemented by centers in India China. selective environment (GSOE) did not provide a solution all expectations, unexpected occurred. Several practices, communication information sharing, behavior-related lessons learned items identified. GSOE needs be developed an agile incremental manner, instead singular implementation approach. Also, globally distributed teams’ group dynamics critically impacted ability work. recommendations utilized other companies during mode-of-operation development.
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2182-7796']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12821/ijispm050102