Offshore provision of IS/IT related services has been growing rapidly in recent years and seems firmly set to continue. This trend is fueled by the many advantages of offshore service procurement; however, there are dangers in this practice. Furthermore, offshoring requires adaptation of the IS function and IS management. This, in turn suggests the need for modifications of IS curricula in orde...

The paper presents a research model and a measurement instrument for a research-in-progress study on the antecedents of success in IS offshoring projects. In this empirical-confirmatory study, we intend to analyse the impact of the constructs “offshoring expertise”, “trust in offshore service provider”, “project suitability”, “knowledge transfer”, and “liaison quality” on offshore project succe...

The offshoring of software development is over three decades old and has been at the leading edge of the offshoring of information technology services. Over the past decade, the pace of offshoring has dramatically increased due in large part to new communication technologies and the opening up of India. This report discusses the evolution of software’s globalizing supplychain. It argues that hi...

In recent years, a growing empirical literature has studied the consequences of offshoring for the labor market outcomes of individual employees in the developed countries. This paper contributes to that literature by analyzing the effects of offshoring on the reemployment wages of displaced workers in the U.S.. Results show that offshoring significantly lowers postdisplacement wages. The effec...

This article explores the IT offshore outsourcing phenomena and discusses the predictors of firm’s adoption level of offshoring practice. The authors draw on transaction cost economics, culture theories, integrated social contract theory, and institutional theory to examine the offshore outsourcing impetuses and investigate the related research issues. The multitheoretic lens highlights the int...

This paper defines an analytic framework with which to research the impact of IS offshoring on its various stakeholders and applies this to two significant case studies of offshoring in the financial services industry. It presents conclusions on one particular segment of the research programme, namely the extent to which IS offshoring drives cultural change for IS practitioners in offshore loca...

While hazardous products made in China have caused panic for consumers worldwide, very few studies attempt to analyze the apparently significant agency cost of outsourcing and offshoring. This paper aims at filling the gap by modeling the incentive effects of outsourcing and offshoring, as well as their interactions. By defining the firm from the perspective of internal financing and focusing o...

The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the knowledge on how production offshoring and international operations management vary across cultural contexts. The chapter attempts to shed light on how companies approach the process of offshoring in different cultural contexts. In order to achieve this objective, the authors employ a qualitative methodology and compare three Danish and three ...