Organizations are under increasing pressure to exhibit the value of their outsourcing. However, previous IS outsourcing research studies failed to provide evidence on how IT client-provider relationships should be managed to ensure outsourcing success. This article draws on theories of transaction cost and social exchange to develop a model examining outsourcing relationship governance mechanis...

The rapid development of service outsourcing is a product of international industrial restructuring, promoting the structure optimization of service industrial. Since service outsourcing depends on knowledge highly, this paper explores the relationship between knowledge stock and knowledge absorptive capacity in knowledge management of service outsourcing enterprise, uses SPSS statistical softw...

We use an economic learning model to examine how knowledge parameters characterizing a sourcing relationship between a vendor and a client interact with production costs and coordination costs to affect the business value of alternative outsourcing strategies. This information is then used to determine a firm’s optimal rate of information technology (IT) outsourcing. We find that the optimal ou...

This paper addresses the secure outsourcing problem for large-scale matrix computation to a public cloud. We propose a novel public-key weave ElGamal encryption (WEE) scheme for encrypting a matrix over the field Zp. The scheme has the echelon transformation property. We can apply a series of elementary row/column operations to transform an encrypted matrix under our WEE scheme into the row/col...

UNRESTRICTED Important: This version of this thesis is unrestricted and does not contain confidential paragraphs and chapters. The complete thesis is confidential and therefore not available to the public. Since some years many organisations 'offshore' their IT application support. Even though cost savings and benefits seem sky high, many organisations that have been outsourcing for a while, fi...

Outsourcing some maintenance functions or the entire maintenance of specific equipment is one of the options available to maintenance managers in managing their department more effectively. Organizations may expect to achieve many different benefits through successful maintenance outsourcing, although there are significant risks that may be realized if outsourcing is not successful. The purpose...

In Australia, popular discussion of the growing market in outsourcing information technology (IT) has been spurred by decisions of several large companies and the Australian government to outsource IT operations, but there has been little academic research into outsourcing in Australia. This chapter reports research into Australian IT outsourcing based on data collected in 1999. The research ob...

This paper presents a decentralized cooperative economic scheduling mechanism for a supply chain environment. For this purpose, we design autonomous agents that minimize the production or transportation and outsourcing costs incurred by the external execution of a task. The decentralized cooperative scheduling approach comprises two parts: the individual optimization of an agent’s local schedul...

Previous research into enforcement of law and corporate social responsibility mostly assumes that the vertical structure of the entities causing harm is exogenous. By outsourcing, the source of harm may avoid some liability and responsibility, while losing direct control over the evasive actions that cause harm. Here, we analyze the trade off between avoidance of liability and control over evas...