Offshore software development is a software paradigm for developing high quality software at low wage country at reduces cost. We have proposed a model of outsourcing contract management model (OCMM). The success factors, risk factors and practices for the identified factors were identified through systematic literature review (SLR). Questionnaire survey was conducted for the validation of the ...

In many instances, customers are seen as one of the key resources for new product development (NPD), as they often have deep product knowledge as well as experience and creativity potential gained by regular product usage. From knowledge management perspective, customers’ input to NPD is manifested in different forms of knowledge. Customers’ input to NPD typically reflects their needs and desir...

Operations management (OM) theory suggests that professional services have some distinct operational challenges. There is an emerging consensus that professional services are changing, due to the socio-economic and political climates in which they operate. In order to investigate these issues a systematic literature review was undertaken. This paper makes a contribution by exploring the OM lite...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight that research on the measurement of key indicators that represent drivers of the knowledge economy still spans several different, although interrelated, directions. The results of this review call for further integration of metrics through cross-disciplinary international, multinational and organizational partnerships that could reconcile and ...

BACKGROUND Pharmacological interventions alone do not provide sufficient benefit for some individuals with bipolar disorder. AIMS To determine the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for the prevention of relapse in bipolar disorder. METHOD A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials were conducted. RESULTS Cognitive-behavioural therap...

There has been considerable development in Information Technology (IT) outsourcing during the last two decades. Nowadays, practitioner-related as well as scholarly literature have identified multisourcing as an emerging key strategy. Multisourcing is described as the blending of services from multiple internal and external vendors. Especially in the case of multisourcing the management of relat...

An increasingly dynamic, unpredictable and challenging environment leads organizations to cross their own borders and establish partnerships to other organizations for remaining competitive. This crossorganizational relationship allows participating organizations to share resources with each other and collaborate to better handle an identified opportunity for joint work. However, besides having...

Manufacturing expe riments with full automation for manufacturing of goods, developed, promoted and attempted in the 1980s, have failed for economic and technical reasons. It is now widely accepted that humans are vital to efficient and effective operation of manufacturing proce sses. Historically, human resources in most manufacturing environments have been m ismanaged, and while the re has be...

BACKGROUND Grey literature includes a range of documents not controlled by commercial publishing organisations. This means that grey literature can be difficult to search and retrieve for evidence synthesis. Much knowledge and evidence in public health, and other fields, accumulates from innovation in practice. This knowledge may not even be of sufficient formality to meet the definition of gre...

The aim of this study was to systematically review the available literature on the levels, causes, and impact of stress among dental students. The investigators searched eight electronic databases: Medline, Medline in process, Psychinfo, ERIC, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and SCOPUS. Two independent reviewers conducted the selection, data extraction, and quality appraisal for inclu...