Offshore Outsourcing, also die Auslagerung von kostenintensiven Prozessen in das Ausland, ist insbesondere für die Entwicklung und Wartung von ITAnwendungssystemen eine interessante Sourcing-Alternative. Ein Kostenvergleich auf Vollkostenbasis (und nicht nur auf Basis von Stundensätzen) liefert im eingeschwungenen Zustand eine Kostenersparnis von bis zu 25 %. In der Projektorganisation ist die ...

The shrinking student numbers in IS programs in developed countries has created a crisis for the IS profession. In this paper we explore how offshoring is affecting the IS discipline both directly and indirectly and show some of the major causes behind the re-location of IS work. Our primary message is that while offshoring has impacted the location of some IS tasks, this has not led to the dem...

International trade and emission offshoring can reduce a country’s domestic carbon dioxide emissions, helping it to reach reduction targets set under the prevailing territorial climate policy frameworks. We ask what is net contribution of national production-based emissions. Existing metrics (consumption-based emissions technology-adjusted balance embodied in trade) do not answer this question....

Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage work beyond organizational physical boundaries. A typology connects a variety of non-traditional organizations made possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing, remote work, virtual companies platforms. model illustrates how new serves as proximate cause for revision social cont...