Faced with the rapid change of business environment and technology, IT outsourcing has become an important alternative for IT management. IT outsourcing provides IT organization adaptability and sustainable competitive advantages. Despite the fact that many firms have tried to adopt IT outsourcing, comprehensive case studies on IT outsourcing process have so far rarely been reported. Therefore,...

To date, most research on information technology (IT) outsourcing concludes that firms decide to outsource IT services because they believe that outside vendors possess production cost advantages. Yet it is not clear whether vendors can provide production cost advantages, particularly to large firms who may be able to replicate vendors' production cost advantages in-house. Mixed out-sourcing su...

Outsourcing generally involves non-strategic resources and/or non-asset specific capabilities. However, in this paper, the authors examine the non-traditional, but increasingly more common, use of IT to facilitate theoretically inconsistent outsourcing decisions involving core resources and capabilities. The authors reconcile theory with practice by developing propositions to explain how IT can...

E-government outsourcing enables government to be relieved from IT system construction and maintenance, and concentrate on their management affairs, obtaining lower costs, more advanced technology, and less personnel demands additionally. This paper analyzes the e-government outsourcing according to types, advantages, risks, process and crucial factors, which gives suggestions on the cooperatio...

IT outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular. The recent Holway Report into the UK IT services industry found spending on outsourcing last year grew by 15% compared with 5% the previous year. Also the value of outsourcing deal s doubled between 1999 and 2000 from #713 million to #1.8 billion. The main advantages of outsourcing are clear. Firstly, it allows a business to fix the price of supp...

Research Article Jens Dibbern University of Bern [email protected] Wynne W. Chin University of Houston [email protected] Armin Heinzl University of Mannheim [email protected] The practice of information systems (IS) outsourcing is widely established among organizations. Nonetheless, evidence suggests that organizations differ considerably in the extent to which they deploy IS outsourcin...

Existing research fails to explain why firms with weaker capabilities sometimes reach innovation adoption levels similar to those of their stronger competitors when competence-enhancing innovations enter their industry. This paper argues that differential benefits from collaborative outsourcing may help explain this puzzle. Firms with weaker capabilities sometimes benefit more from collaborativ...

Many large enterprises develop their software nowadays in globally distributed settings. By using the option to outsource, the respective enterprises can realize decisive competitive advantages. In order to remain competitive, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are also forced to follow this trend and to outsource parts of their software development. However, most of the existing studies...

Existing research fails to explain why firms with weaker capabilities sometimes reach innovation adoption levels similar to those of their stronger competitors when competence-enhancing innovations enter their industry. This paper argues that differential benefits from collaborative outsourcing may help explain this puzzle. Firms with weaker capabilities sometimes benefit more from collaborativ...

nowadays, outsourcing is viewed as a trade strategy and organizations tend to adopt new strategies to achieve competitive advantages in the current world of business. focusing on main copmpetencies, and transferring most of activities to outside resources of organization( outsourcing) is one such strategy is. in this paper, we aim to decide on decision maker agent of transportation system, by a...