Outsourcing involves contracting out functions performed by an organization to another organization. Many healthcare organizations are exploring outsourcing as a way to address demands for health information technology (HIT). This study researches the success of outsourcing in the health informatics industry in Canada. The study is designed to help understand whether outsourcing four functions ...

Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) are revolutionizing the relationships between humans, computers, and things. Outsourcing computation to cloud can offer resources-constrained enterprises consumers sustainable computing in CPSS. However, ensuring security of data such an outsourced environment remains a research challenge. Principal eigentensor has emerged as powerful tool dealing with multi...

Outsourcing is in this study defined as the transfer of responsibility and activities, including relevant assets and resources, from a user to a legally separate party, that becomes a vendor to the user. An outsourcer transfers activities to an outsourced unit. The situation of the outsourced unit becomes problematic in its provision of goods or services to both the outsourcer and other buyers....

the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...

in recent years, outsourcing as a means of promoting and development of productivity has been considered to be in line with the country's 20-years vision document and article 44 of the constitution by administrators of organizations. this process has been implemented in different forms in order to effectively downsize the government. iutun this study, technical efficiency and scale efficiency o...

INTRODUCTION Globally, information technology (IT) outsourc-ing has spread quickly in many countries and spending by organizations in IT outsourcing is increasing rapidly each year. According to Gartner (Blackmore, De Souza, Young, Goodness, and Silliman, 2005), total spending on IT outsourcing worldwide is likely to rise from US $184 billion in 2003 to US $256 billion in 2008. However, definin...

In recent years, software development outsourcing has become even more complex. Outsourcing partner have begun‘re-outsourcing’ components of their projects to other outsourcing companies to minimize cost and gain efficiencies, creating a multi-level hierarchy of outsourcing. This research in progress paper presents preliminary findings of a study designed to understand knowledge transfer effect...

What is the role of information technology (IT) in enabling the outsourcing of manufacturing plant production processes? Do plant strategies influence production outsourcing? Does production process outsourcing influence plant performance? This research addresses these questions by investigating the role of IT and plant strategies as antecedents of production outsourcing, and evaluating the imp...

Technological innovation can promote the growth of international service outsourcing in China by advancing enterprise ability to undertake international service outsourcing, human resource quality, upgrading of international service outsourcing industry and base building of international service outsourcing. Based on the relative data from 10 areas where the international service outsourcing is...

To date, most applications of real options theory (ROT) in outsourcing literature are modeled from the clients’ side. Little attention has been paid to vendors’ options in outsourcing. In this article, we study outsourcing from the vendors’ perspective by analyzing vendors’ value of waiting. The contribution of our research to the literature lies in our analysis of a model that compensates for ...