This paper identifies and analyses firm-level characteristics that facilitate onshore and offshore business process outsourcing (BPO). We complement and extend prior IS outsourcing research using organizational economics by using organizational learning and capabilities to develop a conceptual...

Human capital is becoming more critical as the global economy becomes more information- and service-intensive. While IS researchers have studied some dimensions of human capital, the role of industry-specific human capital has remained understudied. The IT-enabled business process outsourcing...