Issn 0832-7203 It Outsourcing Risk Management at British Petroleum
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This paper reports the results of a study of three successive IT outsourcing contracts at British Petroleum (BP). We offer an operational definition of IT outsourcing risk and use it to assess the risk exposure associated with each contract. We then examine how the management at BP dealt with outsourcing risk. Our results show that careful and deliberate risk management can substantially attenuate the level of risk exposure, and that IT outsourcing risks can be managed. Résumé Ce document présente les résultats d'une étude de trois contrats d'impartition successifs. L'étude fut conduite chez Petroleum. Une définition opérationnelle du risque d'impartition est donnée. Cette définition est ensuite utilisée pour déterminer le niveau de risque associé à chacun des contrats. Les mécanismes de gestion de risque sont également identifiés. Les résultats démontrent qu'une gestion active du risque permet de réduire sensiblement les niveaux d'exposition au risque, notamment dans le cas de contrats d'impartition des technologies de l'information. Mots-clés EL07 : Outsourcing of IS EL08 : IS Risk Management AM01 : Agency Theory AM02 : Transaction Cost Economics AC0406 : Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty IT Outsourcing Risk Management at British Petroleum
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IT Outsourcing Risk Management at British Petroleum
This paper reports the results of a study of three successive IT outsourcing contracts at British Petroleum (BP). We offer an operational definition of IT outsourcing risk and use it to assess the risk exposure associated with each contract. We then examine how the management at BP dealt with outsourcing risk. Our results show that careful and deliberate risk management can substantially attenu...
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تاریخ انتشار 2003