With so many firms seemingly disenchanted with their experiences of offshore outsourcing one may well wonder why relatively few of these firms choose to ‘backsource’ – i.e., bring their offshored operations back in-house. Of all sourcing decisions that firms take, backsourcing is perhaps...

This paper examines joint vendor performance in multi-sourcing arrangements. Using an Information Processing View, we argue that managing interdependencies between multiple vendors imposes substantial information processing (IP) requirements on clients. To achieve high joint performance, clients...

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...

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...