While Information Systems (IS) outsourcing has been increasing unabated in the past few decades, managing effective client-vendor partnership is still a challenge for many organizations. Empirical studies in IS outsourcing have mainly focused on the detriments of outsourcing, while not sufficiently investigating the area of client-vendor partnership. This research intends to bridge this gap by ...

As sophistication and complexity in information technology (IT) increases, organisations are discovering difficulties in managing their information systems efficiently and effectively for commercial success. The access to state-of-the-art technologies has accelerated the need for different approaches to managing IT resources. Companies increasingly perceive IT outsourcing as a necessary organis...

Using a qualitative research method, this work investigates risks associated with IT outsourcing and aspects of managing outsourcing risks in the context of Higher Learning Institutes (HLI) in Ethiopia. Primary data is collected through interviews conducted with various stakeholders in the IT outsourcing process including a select set of executives, committee members, domain experts and users. ...

The practice of outsourcing IT in Australia has only recently become commonplace. One large corporation, Alpha, was an early mover in outsourcing beginning in 1997 and is the subject of this study. Previous research proposes reasons for outsourcing and numerous factors which contribute to outsourcing success. This paper explores the reasons and the extent to which these identified factors for o...

a r t i c l e i n f o The aim of this article is to present a research model that defines how different outsourcing strategies influence organizational control mechanisms that impact outsourcing outcomes. This research study consists of five case studies, each focusing on a foreign multinational corporation (MNC) that has outsourcing experience in China. The results of these case studies examin...

Logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. The selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing Firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. In this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...

Out of the various motivations and intentions for outsourcing information technology, customers’ expectations of innovative IT products and services for business advantage have only recently become an emerging issue among IT service providers and their customers. But little is known about ITenabled innovation in IS outsourcing settings and how to manage such outsourcing relationships. Do custom...

The market for information technology outsourcing has seen significant growth in the last decade (GartnerGroup, 1998). Companies use IT outsourcing to increase the efficiency of their globalization process, while maintaining core competency strength. As a result, the ability to manage effective IT outsourcing projects is of utmost important to the success of IT managers (Sambamurthy & Zmud, 200...

Recent case study research has examined the role of organization control as a critical component of outsourcing performance (Kang et al. 2012a. Journal of Business Research 65, 1195–1201). In contrast to case study methodology, this paper aims to empirically examine the relationships among outsourcing strategies and organizational control in the Chinese context and refine the theoretical and ma...

Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider two interrelated issues: (i) the incentiv...