nowadays, outsourcing is viewed as a trade strategy and organizations tend to adopt new strategies to achieve competitive advantages in the current world of business. focusing on main copmpetencies, and transferring most of activities to outside resources of organization( outsourcing) is one such strategy is. in this paper, we aim to decide on decision maker agent of transportation system, by a...

Motivated by the recently proposed (and eventually abandoned) partnership in sponsored search advertising between Yahoo! and Google, we examine a model for ad selection in which an agent must balance directly learning which ads perform best and outsourcing ad slots to another party in exchange for a share of any click revenue. Our framework captures a fundamental tension between the potential s...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of factors that contributes to the success of engineering and embedded systems outsourcing in complex product development and to develop an outsourcing framework for collaborative product development in aircraft programmes in India. Based on the review of literature on complex product development and strategic outsourcing, the potential f...

This paper presents an overview of a national case study exploring the IS/IT outsourcing phenomenon in the private sector of a developing country. Kuwait has been used as an example of a developing country and the data collection for this study was done there. The primary data on IS/IT outsourcing practices, obtained for the first time in Kuwait, were collected by means of survey questionnaire ...

With the advance of e-commerce and the outsourcing industry, there has emerged an urgent demand for inter-disciplinary talent that not only grasps e-commerce process analysis, but is also familiar with software development. The authors of this article have analysed existing problems in training for traditional software-related specialties. Also considered were ways to break down the barriers th...

This paper examines the factors, which determine R&D outsourcing behaviour at Japanese firms, from the viewpoints of transaction cost and strategic management, since the latter half of the 1990s. This study uses empirical analysis, which involves the application of large-sample data. The principal findings of this paper are listed below. Firms that belong to a wider corporate group are more act...

Our research contributes to the quest for management action items that drive outsourcing management success. We hypothesize and empirically show that a certain piece of IT governance, the explicit documentation of roles and responsibilities of staff residing in the client firm’s retained organization contributes to social alignment in terms of interaction quality, shared knowledge, and trust be...

Outsourcing has increasingly been recognized as a source of great competitive advantage. By moving away from vertical integration and towards outsourcing, firms face a new challenge in integrating the various activities of the supply chain. The advent of novel information technologies, however, has made the integration of supply chain activities more manageable. In this study, we evaluate the e...

The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) culture has been continuously articulated since mid-1920s. The goal of DIY has been gradually shifted from the solution of the “time-rich and money-poor” situation into the confirmation of personal creativities and the needs of outsourcing and social contact. This paper addresses the design of a DIY environment for managing data semantics from different intelligent comp...