W describe a three-hour class on global dual sourcing built around a game that demonstrates the challenges in making operational decisions, and transfers recent academic insights to the classroom. Student teams manage a firm with access to a responsive but expensive supply source (Mexico) and a cheap but remote source (China). Each team must determine a sourcing strategy to satisfy random deman...

This paper on Application Service Providers investigates why organizations select an ASP as a form of IS sourcing. To achieve this, we set the ASP within the context of literature on Neoclassical and Resource-Based View (RBW) theories. The results revealed that costs matter little in ASP sourcing decisions. The ASP is chosen not simply as a cost reducing alternative, but moreover, when companie...

This research-in-progress attempts to investigate how the relational elements in SLAs may potentially boost the success of sourcing relationships. The study provides insight into the development of relational governance through contractual governance over the course of a sourcing engagement, drawing upon relational exchange theory (RET). In particular, we wish to develop a set of possible guide...

The processes performed by strategic sourcing professionals have evolved beyond sourcing initiatives to include supplier relationship management and continuous category-based opportunity assessment. This comprehensive set of processes is best described as "Category Lifecycle Management" or CLM. Enterprises that understand and leverage CLM in its broadest sense will gain a strategic edge over th...

GOKCE, MAHMUT ALI. Optimization of Sourcing Decisions in Supply Chains. (Under the direction of Dr. Russell E. King, Dr. Jeffery A. Joines, and Dr. Michael G. Kay.) Sourcing decisions in supply chains traditionally are made solely based on cost considerations. Typically sourcing models or decision-making procedures are either ad hoc or proprietary. In this dissertation a meta-heuristic-based op...