and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and … and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, BT is taking a strategic approach to outsourcing: this has resulted in a rapid … every outsourcing decision could have major security, legal, regulatory and contractual impacts. It is generally recognised …

Outsourcing and offshoring are changing the nature of the firm, and producing unprecedented international relocation of … where and why?’ to explain the outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon. We present a novel modelling approach to represent a firm … outsourcing and offshoring to the organization of the firm, and offer propositions that frame our economic modelling approach. We …

The past decade has seen explosive growth in offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to India by US and European … employment and skills shortages that can be addressed by offshore outsourcing. However, a large-scale survey of domesticIT … outsourcing in Australia reported that failure rates are higher than has been recognized in the literature, while practitioner …

The past decade has seen explosive growth in offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to India by US and European … firms. However, Australian firms have been slower to take advantage of this trend. Offshore outsourcing by Australian firms …

The global phenomenon of the IS/IT outsourcing continues to grow in importance. IS/IT outsourcing presents business …While the foundation of IS/IT outsourcing is ostensibly the transfer of financial and structural capital and vendor … protection of intellectual capital relies on appropriate staff transition processes. However, little outsourcing research exists …

The practice of outsourcing business is international with outsourcing of information technology (IT) systems leading … the outsourcing phenomena. In Australia outsourcing is consistent with international trends. Detailed research concludes … that organisations contemplate IT outsourcing for essentially thirteen reasons that fall within five categories. These …

consultative management. These values drive BAC’s strategy of maintaining a slim core, outsourcing, relationships building, and …

Financial Services firm in outsourcing, and subsequently offshoring, two of its IT projects to vendor firms in India, where …The outsourcing of IS functionality to offshore development firms has been a growth industry that has blossomed over …

A growing empirical literature indicates that outsourcing can deliver short term cuts in costs but leads to a long term … loss of productivity growth. In order to explain this outsourcing productivity paradox, the paper examines the connection … between total outsourcing and organisational innovation, a major contributor to productivity growth. This is done within a …