This book is a guide for achieving innovation through outsourcing. Unpacking the various challenges faced by client firms and suppliers, the authors take the reader through the innovation lifecycle and devise a clear plan to achieve valuable results. Offering practical frameworks and tools to...

Chapter 1 The Outsourcing Pivot: Advances and Challenges -- Part I Governing Traditional Outsourcing Services -- Chapter 2 The Governing Mechanisms of Successful Multisourcing Projects -- Chapter 3 What The Guardian Does in Multisourcing Projects -- Chapter 4 IT Multi-sourcing and Opportunistic...

Global sourcing is a complex area, and one that managers must get to grips with as business investment in outsourcing continues to climb. This book provides invaluable guidance for the reader, walking them through the fundamentals of global sourcing to very recent trends, including intelligent...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review recent trends and issues in global IT sourcing and to introduce papers in the special issue: "Social, managerial and knowledge aspects in global IT sourcing". Design/methodology/approach - The paper examines trends by regions including Brazil,...

1. Introduction: On Types of Products of Theorizing -- 2. Useful Products in Information Systems Theorizing: A Discursive Formation Perspective -- 3. Debating Genres And IS Research: The Case Of Action Principles For Service Automation -- 4. A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Digital Objects in...