Issues in Vendor-Library Relations: Outsourcing

Vendor managment in global IS outsourcing projects

An Analysis of International Outsourcing in Iran-China Trade Relations

Iran-China relations are deeply rooted in history and have been enhanced recently with bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy, arms sales, trade, political cooperation and cultural ties. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of international outsourcing in form of trading intermediate products on bilateral trade relations between Iran and China. As an empirical work, we h...

Vendor-Vendor Knowledge Transfer In Global ISD Outsourcing Projects: Insights From A German Case Study

While prior research repeatedly emphasized the importance of client-vendor knowledge transfer in global ISD outsourcing projects, there is still very little understanding about the knowledge transfer between vendor companies. However, due to the increasing involvement of multiple vendors within a global ISD project, the topic becomes vital. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyze how and ...

Optimizing vendor selection in a two-stage outsourcing process

The decision processes surrounding outsourcing are complicated by the very nature of uncertainty involved in the outsourcing process and by poor vendor management. In this study, we focus on vendor selection, one of the two basic issues of vendor management in outsourcing. Due to the limitation of the classic one-stage vendor selection model, we propose a two-stage vendor selection research fra...

Client-Vendor Relationships in Cloud Computing: Lessons from IT Outsourcing

There is considerable debate in the IS research literature about the nature of cloud computing. Whereas some researchers suggest that cloud computing is a paradigm shift that is changing the IT industry, others argue that cloud computing is just another form of IT outsourcing. Based on a review of the IS research and practitioner literature, this paper takes a middle position. We believe that w...