Data was gathered from managers who are responsible for part or all of the information resources of selected large organizations in Korea, Mexico, and the US. The purpose of the research was to learn about the managers’ perceptions of their roles and the factors influencing their own...

Prior research has focused on factors influencing the choice of controls in traditional project settings. Building on this research, this paper investigates the amount of control—defined as the variety and intensity of control mechanisms—in offshore software development projects....