Increasingly, firms are outsourcing their processes. Outsourcing regards not only peripheral activities but portions of key activities as well. Outsourcing is a pervasive phenomenon that often overlaps, and interferes with, the strategic decision to define a firm’s boundaries. By outsourcing phases of R&D processes, for example, firms may lose their know-how concerning the production of core pr...

An increasingly large number of firms outsource their Information Technology (IT). Firms that contemplate IT outsourcing have two alternatives: (1) contract with a vendor (i.e., outsourcing) or (2) set up their own IT subsidiary (i.e. quasi-outsourcing). This study examines some of the determinants of the outsourcing vs. quasi-outsourcing decision. Using primary data collected in France and Ger...

These days, many software companies handover their software projects to outsourcing organizations. Outsourcing refers to handing over some or complete business process activities to some outside manufacturer. Many software companies now have started feeling the need of outsource development due to numerous factors that include high cost of experienced in-house developers, tough project schedule...

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,...

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...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of hospitals' innovativeness on outsourcing decision-making regarding four information system (IS) functions, namely, software programs, network maintenance, hardware systems, and PC/printer maintenance. METHODS Using the 2011 roster of the Korean Hospital Association, this study selected 311 general hospitals as a study populat...

Outsourcing involves contracting out functions performed by an organization to another organization. Many healthcare organizations are exploring outsourcing as a way to address demands for health information technology (HIT). This study researches the success of outsourcing in the health informatics industry in Canada. The study is designed to help understand whether outsourcing four functions ...

the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...

in recent years, outsourcing as a means of promoting and development of productivity has been considered to be in line with the country's 20-years vision document and article 44 of the constitution by administrators of organizations. this process has been implemented in different forms in order to effectively downsize the government. iutun this study, technical efficiency and scale efficiency o...

INTRODUCTION Globally, information technology (IT) outsourc-ing has spread quickly in many countries and spending by organizations in IT outsourcing is increasing rapidly each year. According to Gartner (Blackmore, De Souza, Young, Goodness, and Silliman, 2005), total spending on IT outsourcing worldwide is likely to rise from US $184 billion in 2003 to US $256 billion in 2008. However, definin...