This paper examines the impact of offshoring and outsourcing of core activities on the project level performance of these activities. Specifically, we look at whether offshoring and outsourcing of core activities have a positive impact on performance which is measured as the duration and cost of the study. The research setting for this study is the pharmaceutical industry and we focus on clinic...

Global partnerships are forming to take advantage of the cost savings associated with offshoring as well as other strategic benefits. Not all information technology offshoring projects, however, are successful. Cost overruns, increased complexity and defective code cause organizations to rethink their offshoring strategy and their methods for managing these projects. In this paper, project mana...

We present a model in which monitoring costs determine firms’ outsourcing and offshoring decisions. We predict that the most productive firms outsource in the South, while the least productive produce in-house in the North. Within the range of intermediate productivities, firms with lower productivity outsource in the North, and those with higher productivity perform in-house production in the ...

To our best knowledge, this is the first quantitative study on the impact of the supplier‘s national culture on the client‘s choice of control modes in IS offshoring projects. A survey-based field study was conducted, using a client-supplier matched pair as the unit of analysis. This approach allowed for the examination of the direct control relationship within 46 unique matched pairs. The stud...

The aim of this paper is to determine the reasons and strategic drivers of offshoring activities of multinational companies (MNCs) in Turkey and compare those reasons with the ones found in other emerging countries. The primary data source is a series of in-depth interviews with professionals from several industries in Turkey. It was found that similar to other offshoring destinations, the reas...

IS offshoring research regarding knowledge transfer processes, roles involved, as well as influencing factors is characterized by its diverse and heterogeneous nature. Covering the last fifteen years of IS offshoring research, this paper provides a consolidated view of the field of study. It presents a generic knowledge transfer process consisting of four stages and five milestones. These stage...

After decades of offshoring, in recent years, companies have sometimes revised their location decisions implementing one the three alternatives so-called ?relocations second degree?. More specifically, they relocated manufacturing activities either home country (back-shoring), region (near-shoring), or a further away (further offshoring). While offshoring and relocations degree been heavily ana...

The rapid spread of the internet over last two decades has prompted more and companies to deploy their work internationally. offshoring strategy enables organizations cut down costs, boost shareholder value, acquire a competitive advantage, reduce cycle time, increase workforce flexibility, generate revenue focus on core business. number worldwide software development projects increased due glo...