Most software project estimation and measurement (PEM) processes have been designed for providers. Customers need to leverage PEM to better direct software sourcing. A design theory for software project-scoping has been developed that supports the PEM processes of both customers and providers. This paper probes the validity of the theory from providers’ and customers’ viewpoints through three l...

T echnology-sourcing relationships between firms involve one firm seeking access to another firm’s technology as embodied in its products, services, or capabilities. Studies on technology-intensive industries reveal the widespread use of such relationships. They span a continuum, ranging from non-equity arrangements at one end to complete ownership at the other. For instance, a pharmaceutical f...

Sourcing addresses critical decisions of what to buy, how much to buy, whom to buy from, and how to manage relationship with suppliers. Decision making in sourcing can involve a few hundred offerings each of which is described by several dozen attributes. When using traditional decision analysis techniques, sourcing specialists are often having difficulties in assigning appropriate weights to a...

Sourcing decisions are a key factor in supply chain security. In this research the authors posit that there are multiple risk types involved in the sourcing decision, and develop a model framework for analyzing these risk components. Specifically, increasing the number of sources minimizes risk related to supply disruptions, but intensifies risk related to security failures. This paper, which i...

For a long time, contingent staffing was considered as the responsability of the Human Resource department. The high needs of workforce flexibility combined with disseminated agencies have led some companies to a great number of labor suppliers. This situation has produced important cost variation, poor quality of service, and important risk due to the mistunderstanding by local managers of leg...

A team from the Naval Postgraduate School conducted a trade-off analysis of in-sourcing (i.e., make) versus outsourcing (i.e., buy) the production of legacy parts for ship maintenance and modernization with a focus on cost savings given the need for cost-effective sustainment. The purpose of the study was to compare the make/buy trade-off for a comparison of implementing 3DLST, 3DP, and CPLM fo...

The use of network arrangement in the development and implementation of e-government service portals is on its increase. Yet, research on network arrangement in sourcing service portals still lags behind developments in practice. This paper uses a network analysis perspective to identify any disconnect in the network arrangement in the sourcing of e-government service portals. We analyzed the h...

NetSourcing has recently gained some importance in the IS literature. However, although the customer side of Netsourcing has drawn a lot of interest, its supply-side remains under-researched. One of the challenges faced by Netsourcing vendors is the difficulty in sourcing the components of the infrastructure on which they rely. This paper proposes to investigate the sourcing strategies used by ...

Our grasp of single-sourcing has come a long way in the past few years. This is thanks in part to technology that makes it easier to reuse content and in part to our pundits that introduce new ideas into our community. However the practice of single-sourcing is not new. For decades other industries, such as manufacturing and software engineering, have been producing components designed to be re...

In this paper, we use qualitative methods to explore how social information technology (IT) sourcing organizations balance the paradoxical orientations of commerce and social upliftment. We apply the theory of organizational impression management to explore how such organizations meet the demands imposed by multiple audiences. The results of our study suggests that in managing the duality of th...