Speed to market is one of the most critical dimensions of competition in today’s markets. As more organizations seek to focus on their key core competencies, the outsourcing of critical business processes such as product design and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and even distribution, is becoming an increasing trend. As outsourcing occurs, the role of procurement will escalate, a...

Though experiencing remarkable growth, many outsourcing deals failed or suffered from serious problems. The literature has explored either the relationship or contract issues in IT outsourcing success, however, few efforts have been paid to investigate the effects of both relationship and contract on IT outsourcing success from a holistic view. This study develops a conceptual model and empiric...

Relationship has become important for the success of IS/IT outsourcing projects. Although some studies have explored the issues of IS/IT outsourcing relationship in the past, these studies are mostly limited to the client's perspective. We explore from the vendors' perspective the nature, role and influence of relationship quality on outsourcing success. Therefore the main purpose of this study...

The objective of this exploratory study was to identify drivers of adoption for a new form of information technology outsourcing--the ASP model--in the healthcare industry. Primary data were collected in January 2002 from a nationwide survey of senior-level healthcare information technology executives. Cost management (supplier presence, asset specificity, production costs, transaction costs, r...

IT-Supported International Outsourcing of Software Production Chunling Wu and Anicet Yalaho Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä, 2002. Pp. 172 This study analyses how the IT supported international outsourcing of software production process is executed. We present essential ideas and theoretical background for our study through an in-depth literature review in the areas of subcontracting, outsou...

oil production optimization is one of the main targets of reservoir management. smart well technology gives the ability of real time oil production optimization. although this technology has many advantages; optimum adjustment or sizing of corresponding valves is still an issue to be solved. in this research, optimum port sizing of inflow control devices (icds) which are passive control valves ...

A Service-Oriented System of System (or SoS) considers system as a service and constructs a value-added SoS by outsourcing external systems through service composition. To cope with the dynamic and uncertain running environment and assure the overall Quality of Service (or QoS), online reliability prediction for SoS arises as a grand challenge in SoS research. Online reliability prediction is e...

Agricultural production outsourcing, a new means of agricultural production, can optimise the allocation resources, reduce costs, and improve productivity. However, farmers' outsourcing behaviours are strongly interfered with by many factors such as economics, technology institutions. Using farmer-level data set from 2014 to 2018 in China, we examine effects minimum wage increase on rice behavi...