On the Offshore Outsourcing of IT Projects: Status and Issues.

On the Offshore Outsourcing of IT Projects: Status and Issues

Today countries such as India and China have thriving information technology (IT) industries performing projects that the US, Western Europe, and Japan have outsourced to take advantage of the substantially lower labor costs there. These countries have been able to service many small and large outsourced projects by deploying large numbers of workers skilled in the basics of IT. Although the cu...

Project Management Issues in IT Offshore Outsourcing

Global partnerships are forming to take advantage of the cost savings associated with offshoring as well as other strategic benefits. Not all information technology offshoring projects, however, are successful. Cost overruns, increased complexity and defective code cause organizations to rethink their offshoring strategy and their methods for managing these projects. In this paper, project mana...

on the status of mixed methods research in applied linguistics

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IT Offshore Outsourcing: Contingency and Strategies

This article explores the IT offshore outsourcing phenomena and discusses the predictors of firm’s adoption level of offshoring practice. The authors draw on transaction cost economics, culture theories, integrated social contract theory, and institutional theory to examine the offshore outsourcing impetuses and investigate the related research issues. The multitheoretic lens highlights the int...

Offshore Outsourcing: Current and Future Effects on American it Industry