Nowadays, firm have realized the importance of information technology as an essential tool for the success of business. Accessing the applicability of information technology might be the main expectation of the firm for outsourcing. By outsourcing, firms can have access to advanced technologies and use external sources for their goal. The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of interactio...

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...

To save time and money, businesses and individuals have begun outsourcing their data and computations to cloud computing services. These entities would, however, like to ensure that the queries they request from the cloud services are being computed correctly. In this paper, we use the principles of economics and competition to vastly reduce the complexity of query verification on outsourced da...

In the wave of globalization, as a way of the international transfer of capital, outsourcing is developing very rapidly. There are many researches on the economic effects of outsourcing, this article use the China's economic data during the economic development and build a regression model of the economic effect, and analysis the four effect of outsourcing on our country. The results show that ...

We investigate the impact of Information Technology (IT) outsourcing on firm performance from several dimensions, including changes in labor productivity, improvements in financial and operational performance variables, and stock market valuation of IT outsourcing initiatives as measured by Tobin’s q. While our main objective is to better understand the economics of IT outsourcing, we also aim ...

We propose a model to explain success in large scale, complex outsourcing arrangements. The work is based on a field study of current outsourcing practice and review of literature. The model links outsourcing success to modularity and firm level performance. Data collected from a survey of Chief Information Officers and other senior managers supports our hypotheses. In particular, we observe th...

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...

today, the benefits of organizations cannot be achieved by one organization alone, because the organizations are trying to make their business focus on core competence, and they outsourcing other activities to other organizations. iranian organizations have long spoken of it outsourcing is a form of serious issues; so managers need to increase their knowledge and techniques in the field of it o...