The tendency of acquiring information systems and other high technology services from international suppliers continues at unprecedented levels. The primary motivation for the offshore sourcing of technology and services continues to be labor cost arbitrage, and secondly, access to higher levels of expertise. Yet paradoxically, large gaps in technical proficiency, cultural values, and communica...

This paper explores how a firm’s openness in its technology sourcing interplays with its simultaneous pursuit of knowledge protection strategies to enhance innovative performance. We argue that organizational knowledge protection mechanisms such as restricting employee mobility, secrecy and knowledge complexity influence the inverted-U relationship between a firm’s external technology sourcing ...

This research provided the study of importance of factors affecting the decision making of out-sourcing & supplier performance in Textiles domain. The textile market of USA is the scope of this research. The basis of this study allowed comprehending the importance / weight of fac tors of out-sourcing (including Delivery, Flexibility, Cost, Quality & Reliability) varied according to the buyers n...

Ensuring successful knowledge transfer when embarking on IS sourcing strategy change is critical to ensure service quality and continuity, and organizational IS capability development. Managing the process, however, is complex and challenging. It involves the sharing and learning of technical IS and business knowledge. It also involves knowledge flows across organizational/national boundaries w...

Introduction In June 2002, the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) released a revised study projecting a shortage of 78,000 nurses in Canada by 2011 (Ryten 2002). This projected nursing shortage, along with the increasing average age of nurses, led The Ottawa Hospital to actively plan and strategize the sourcing of Registered Nurse (RN) positions. Annual workforce planning is followed by the deve...

Organizations have used numerous sourcing strategies to lower IT costs and improve IT service levels. However, a number of these sourcing strategies have failed to deliver on their expected outcomes. Multisourcing has been advanced as a form of sourcing which addresses the deficiencies of other failed strategies. Through our case study of Fonterra, the world‟s largest exporter of dairy ingredie...

Micro-outsourcing is the process of sourcing work to smaller firms or individuals using online sites. Several websites provide a platform to match clients and vendors for sourcing jobs. A typical issue with micro-sourcing is information asymmetry regarding the actual expertise of vendors. Online platforms bridge this gap using vendors’ prior histories and client evaluations. In this study, we e...

“Big data” are becoming common in biological oceanography with the advent of sampling technologies that can generate multiple, high-frequency data streams. Given the need for “big” data in ocean health assessments and ecosystem management, identifying and implementing robust, and efficient processing approaches is a challenge for marine scientists. Using a large plankton imagery data set, we pr...

Organizations have used numerous sourcing strategies to lower IT costs and improve IT service levels. However, a number of these sourcing strategies have failed to deliver on their expected outcomes. Multisourcing has been advanced as a form of sourcing which addresses the deficiencies of other failed strategies. Through our case study of Fonterra, the world‟s largest exporter of dairy ingredie...

The dynamic capabilities literature suggests that firms need to use both internal development and external sourcing to thrive over time, but we have a limited understanding of the conditions that best suit different sourcing choices. This study examines how constraints that arise from firms’ existing stocks of capabilities and from their internal social contexts shape their choices of capabilit...