Global outsourcing – also known as offshore outsourcing -is generally dual sourcing involving both offshore and onshore activities because certain activities such as requirements analysis have to be performed onshore in consultation with users. The amount of onshore work or offshore work depends on the nature of IS being developed and vary among IS projects. Vendors charge higher hourly rate fo...

Wind energy has experienced dramatic growth over the past decade. A small fraction of this growth has occurred offshore, but as the best wind resources become developed onshore, there is increasing interest in the development of offshore winds. Like any form of power production, offshore wind energy has both positive and negative impacts. The potential negative impacts have stimulated a great d...

In this paper we develop a learning-mediated model of offshore software project productivity and quality to examine whether widely adopted structured software processes are effective in mitigating the negative effects of work dispersion in offshore software development. We explicate how the key process areas of the capability maturity model (CMM) can be utilized as a platform to launch learning...

Background Despite the particular demands inherent to offshore work, little is known about the working conditions of employees in the German offshore wind industry. To date, neither offshore employees' job demands and resources, nor their needs for improving the working conditions have been explored. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct a qualitative analysis to gain further insight ...

In this paper we develop a learning-mediated model of offshore software project productivity and quality to examine whether widely adopted structured software processes are effective in mitigating the negative effects of work dispersion in offshore software development. We explicate how the key process areas of the capability maturity model (CMM) can be utilized as a platform to launch learning...

Offshore outsourcing has become an alternative for companies to leverage labor resources worldwide and lower cost. Software development is a major activity in offshore outsourcing. To achieve success in software development offshore outsourcing, it is critical to effectively share knowledge between clients and vendors. In this study, based on social capital and intellectual capital theory, we i...

For large companies, offshore sourcing is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for competing. But for small companies, it is generally assumed that the incremental per-worker savings associated with offshore sourcing are likely to be outweighed by the cost and risk of establishing an offshore operation. Nonetheless we found four European SMEs that have not only succeeded offshore, but gained access ...

Offshore outsourcing has become a multi-billion dollar industry with global dominance. This editorial provides an overview of offshore outsourcing and identifies factors affecting success of offshore outsourcing in low-income countries.

In this paper, an offshore process front end engineering design (FEED) method is systematically introduced and reviewed to enable efficient offshore oil and gas production plant engineering. An integrated process engineering environment is also presented for the topside systems of a liquefied natural gas floating production, storage, and offloading (LNG FPSO) unit, based on the concepts and pro...

Culture is one of the major concerns when companies choose offshore outsourcing for software development. However, cultural effects on software development are hard to measure. Therefore, culture is often ignored in offshore outsourcing contracts for software development, or treated as a patch-up issue in the software eventually delivered by the offshore entity. Either scenario might jeopardize...