CONTXEXT:-Software outsourcing partnership (SOP) is a relationship between client and vendor organizations for shared goals. A SOP is different than ordinary outsourcing contractual relationship. Usually a successful outsourcing relationship may lead to outsourcing partnership. OBJECTIVE:-The objective of this research is to identify factors via systematic literature review (SLR), that are sign...

Purpose – To explore the key factors that motivate organizations in China to outsource and the obstacles these companies are facing in comparison with the situation in Western developed countries. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach was adopted with primary data collected through indepth interviews with six companies in China and secondary data aggregated from company reports an...

In recent years the widespread application of outsourcing to help improve finance and maintain competitiveness is growing rapidly, and has been accompanied by a growth of academic research in this field. Most of the outsourcing literature has focused primarily on the social and cultural impacts, the organisational and management perspectives of outsourcing and very few tools have been developed...

This paper presents the results of a research project, in which the current situation related to the information systems (IS) outsourcing practices in four Finnish information systems development organizations was evaluated. The evaluation was based on employees’ own perceptions, and it consisted of analyzing the current IS outsourcing practices in the case companies, driving factors related to...

Over the last decades outsourcing has established itself as widely accepted management practice. Information systems researchers have spent considerable effort in studying the outsourcing phenomenon and theorizing about it. Through the interaction between research and practice, as well as through own experiences, industry managers underwent a noticeable learning curve. This poses the question: ...

The article describes the essence of term “outsourcing” in economy, its importance, procedures for conducting accounting outsourcing services, which are considered to be one types outsourcing, theoretical-methodological and legal aspects as well revealing their special features, thereby highlighting research results on improving this type service.

As the E-commerce space takes a new shape on a regular basis, companies are struggling to keep up with their IT demands. Outsourcing solutions removes the burden from a company's IT department. Attendees will learn: 1) The benefits of outsourcing your solutions. 2) How outsourcing is suited to the many changes in the e-commerce marketplace today. 3) How outsourcing adds to a company's bottom-li...

Over the past decades, it has been recognised that outsourcing has become a cornerstone for manufacturing strategy. The reasons for outsourcing have been extensively elaborated in academic literature (Kremic et al., 2006, p. 467). Not only has management science embraced the concept of outsourcing, industrial companies have also done so, sometimes combined with different initiatives, such as do...

This study examines the similarities and d@erences of outsourcing strategies of medium-sized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan. Analyses of the questionnaire data, obtained from 234 Japanese firms and 94 American firms showed that: (I) Japanese Jirms tended to use more process-oriented R&D outsourcing, while American firms tended to depend on result-oriented R&D outsourcing; (2) Japanes...