Outsourcing of information systems and information technology investments has become a popular method for organizations to achieve their business goals and objectives. However, there is no guarantee that the outsourcing will be perceived as successful due to the very different expectations held by the various stakeholders. The results indicate that the use of IS/IT investment evaluation and ben...

The paper is concerned with the role of international outsourcing and import penetration for determining individual perceived job security. Combining industry-level outsourcing and trade measures with micro-level data from a large household panel survey, we estimate a number of conditional logit models accounting for the ordinal nature of reported job loss fears and individual unobserved hetero...

This case study describes an Asian Information Technology (IT) outsourcing partnership in the discrete manufacturing industry. Interviews with business and IT executives of both the Outsourcing Company and the IT Services Supplier provided the necessary insights. Nowadays many organizations in discrete manufacturing move their plants to Asian countries or other lower wages countries. Most IT se...

Logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. The selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing Firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. In this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...