Wenngleich das Outsourcing von Informationstechnologie (IT) eine weitverbreitete Praxis ist, scheitern viele der Outsourcingprojekte immer wieder. In der Konsequenz sind Unternehmen mit dem Verlust von essentiellen Ressourcen und oder dem Rückgang der Unternehmensperformanz konfrontiert. In...

Is it feasible to apply Agile Project Management methods known from the area of software development to general and project management tasks in engineering? Doing so, is it possible to increase employee motivation and engagement?

This paper examines multiple contract design choices in the context of transaction and relational attributes and consequent ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs. It focuses on two understudied themes in the IT outsourcing literature. First, while the literature is predominantly concerned with...

When trying to attain the benefits of open source software (OSS), proprietary closed source software (PCSS) firms are struggling to adopt this radically different practice of software development. We approach these adoption challenges as a problem of gaining support for organizational...

The remarkable success of open source software applications, such as the Mozilla web browser and the Apache server, which have surpassed the success of most of their commercial counterparts (Mockus et al. 2002), can be attributed, to a large part, to the knowledge collaboration (Faraj et al....