IT executives entering into information technology (IT) outsourcing arrangements seek various strategic, economic, and technological benefits. However, although several cases of IT outsourcing are considered successful, cases of failure can also be observed. Problems and challenges associated with IT outsourcing often not only relate to the strategic decision whether or not to outsource, but to...

Increasingly, firms are outsourcing their processes. Outsourcing regards not only peripheral activities but portions of key activities as well. Outsourcing is a pervasive phenomenon that often overlaps, and interferes with, the strategic decision to define a firm’s boundaries. By outsourcing phases of R&D processes, for example, firms may lose their know-how concerning the production of core pr...

The author of a scientific publication analyzes the concept "outsourcing" and chronology its development. clarifies that this appeared in literature only late 1980s. 20th century, however, outsourcing technology itself earlier — 20s century. Currently, there are many approaches to defining essence outsourcing. Many foreign Russian scientists have studied phenomenon gave their own characteristic...

A corporation’s offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore sourcing in lowcost countries is best described as a learning-by-doing process in which the offshore outso...

In the current networked world, outsourcing of information technology or even of entire business processes is often a prominent design alternative. In the general case, outsourcing is the distribution of economically viable activities over a collection of networked organizations. To evaluate outsourcing decision alternatives, we need to make a conceptual model of each of them. However, in an ou...