Yesterday on InformationWeek's CIOs Uncensored blog, John Soat mused about the fate of outsourcing. 10 years after the practice exploded onto the business world, is sending work overseas growing more or less viable? Arguing for the continued viability of outsourcing is a recent InformationWeek article entitled "The...
Offshore outsourcing is becoming more lucrative in the light of organizations' desires to become low-cost yet high quality service providers. Within the context of software development, much of the outsourcing research has broadly focused on outsourcing without special attention to the nature of what is being outsourced and whether it...
When companies decide on an offshore outsourcing strategy, select service providers and plan their onshore-offshore integration, due diligence and risk assessment is normal part of the process. Until recently however, systematic attention to the cross-cultural dimensions of risk assessment has been rare. With mergers and acquisitions, corporate culture compatibility and...
Economists, including Paul Samuelson and Jagdish Bhagwati, vigorously debate whether offshore outsourcing in high-tech industries helps or harms the U.S. economy. The main issue is whether insourcing countries, such as China or India, will catch up with and eventually outcompete the U.S. Moreover, the dearth of off shore outsourcing data...
This paper discusses literature on outsourcing relative to what seems to be happening in China as China proceeds with her historic transformation of sustained high growth and deep integration into the world economy. It argues that the terminological debates in the literature as to how outsourcing is to be defined,...
This paper describes the outsourcing of software development. It examines the origins of the software outsourcing and analyses the key motivation and the major risks of this practice. The paper focuses mainly on the offshore outsourcing and gives an overview of the major offshore outsourcing destinations. It also analyses the...
Offshore outsourcing has become the part and parcel of the global business world. To quote the controversial statement made by respected US economist Dr. Greg Mankiw, "Offshore outsourcing is now yet another form of international trade". Offshore outsourcing has, in fact, grown far beyond a business aid to become major...
The United States has experienced an increase in the offshore outsourcing of jobs in the service industry. Although offshoring is common in the manufacturing industry, it only recently began in the service industry. The recent increase in the service industry has occurred because of new technology and ability to access...
Despite the attention that offshore outsourcing currently demands in the public media, there is little empirical evidence on its economic impact. As a consequence of rising fears of job losses associated with the phenomenon, most existing research on the subject is primarily concerned with addressing related labour market issues. The...
During the presidential campaign of 2004, no economic issue generated more heat or shed less light than the debate over offshore outsourcing. This fact was probably apparent at the time to any economist who followed politics, but it was felt especially acutely by the authors of this paper. The authors...
This paper examines the impact of project management capabilities on the effectiveness of offshore outsourcing of application development activities. Offshore outsourcing is an important trend in business environment and it is important for us to better understand what capabilities are required for a company to execute an offshore outsourcing arrangement....
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 low-cost countries is best described as a learning-by-doing...
Offshoring of services, either to a foreign affiliate or an external overseas supplier, and its effects on developed economies is at the heart of policy discussion. Whilst macro evidence and case studies are not lacking, few studies have used microeconomic data to analyse this issue and they have only looked...
BANGALORE, India -- Infosys Technologies (Nasdaq:INFY) today announced it has been rated among the leaders in the offshore outsourcing market by internationally reputed market research firm META Group. The new METAspectrum evaluation provides an objective assessment of companies providing offshore outsourcing.
Globalization has enabled the seamless delivery of Information Technology IT and Business Process BP services across borders, through time zones, and over oceans. It has transformed the world into more of a global village than it has ever been. This increasing demand for ITO and BPO services has opened opportunities...
The publisher investigates how recent advances in Information Technology and Telecommunications have led to real-time monitoring of processes at the site of the provider by a buyer located across the globe. The publisher furnishes the results of a comprehensive, multi-year, multi-country survey of the efficacy of monitoring and other instruments...
As long as outsourcing continues to offer business advantages, companies will continue to rely upon it as part of their overall business strategy. While outsourcing can be accompanied by significant risks, as outlined herein, there are also risk management techniques than can help to increase the likelihood that an outsourcing...
Introduction to Application Development was completely reworked. Less emphasis was placed on programming and more emphasis on developing and communicating user requirements. Many items used in training industry were incorporated into the CPT 180 course. The paper will detail the change in focus in this course and overall how the...
This paper shows that offshore outsourcing can occur even when there are no economies of scale or cost advantages for the foreign firms. What drives the phenomenon is that domestic firms, by accepting orders for intermediate goods, incur the disadvantage of becoming Stackelberg followers in the ensuing competition to sell...
Offshore Outsourcing is an increasing IS/IT (Information System/Information Technology) strategy that relies on third party Service Providers typically located in developing, low wage countries. The scale and scope is extending from traditional application development activities to embrace infrastructure management. It poses additional risks on both Service Recipients and Providers, which...
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