Strategic Sourcing Of Information S
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This book provides a forum of current thinking by prominent scholars and practitioners from around the globe. Edited and with a lengthy introduction by two internationally recognised experts in this field, the book's coverage includes: Selective Outsourcing, Total Outsourcing, Total Insourcing, IT department as a trading agency, Offshore Development. Theoretical perspectives allow critical variables to be extracted in order to explain successful or unsuccessful decisions, while decision frameworks and case studies provide guidelines on which sourcing options to select, and how to manage outsourcing arrangements.
ContributorsIntroduction: The Sourcing and Outsourcing of IS: Shock of the New?11The Outsourcing of Information Services: Transforming the Nature of Business in the Information Industry452Towards a Theoretically-based Contingency Model of Information Systems Outsourcing793Can Game Theory Help Us To Understand Information Service Outsourcing Contracts?1034The External Acquisition of Information Systems Knowledge1375A Framework for IS Outsourcing Strategy in Private and Public Sector Contexts1636A Risk-Return Model for Information Technology Outsourcing Decisions1877Financial and Strategic Motivations Behind IS Outsourcing2078Information Systems Outsourcing: Theories, Case Evidence and a Decision Framework2499Outsourcing Practices and Views of America's Most Effective IS Users28310The Management of Partnering Development in IS Outsourcing30511Setting Up Outsourced Information Technology Service Companies32712Failure in Software Outsourcing: A Case Analysis35113Problems and Issues in Offshore Development of Software369Index387
