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作者：Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian
作者单位：Uppsala University; University of Limerick
摘要：This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of the open source development model as a global sourcing strategy-opensourcing, as we term it here-whereby commercial companies and open source communities collaborate on development of software of commercial interest to the company. Building on previous research on information systems outsourcing, a theoretical framework for exploring the opensourcing phenomenon is derived. The first phase of the research concerned qualitati...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.; Bailey, Diane E.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University; Stanford University
摘要：Studies have shown the knowledge transfer problems that arise when communication and storage technologies are employed to accomplish work across time and space. Much less is known about knowledge transfer problems associated with transformational technologies, which afford the creation, modification, and manipulation of digital artifacts. Yet, these technologies play a critical role in offshoring by allo wing the distribution of work at the task level, what we call task-based offshoring For ex...
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作者：Levina, Natalia; Vaast, Emmanuelle
作者单位：New York University; Long Island University; Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus
摘要：Increasingly, firms source more complex and strategic as well as harder to codify information technology projects to low-cost offshore locations. Completing such projects successfully requires close collaboration among all participants. Yet, achieving such collaboration is extremely difficult because of the complexity of the context: multiple and overlapping boundaries associated with diverse organizational and national contexts separate the participants. These boundaries also lead to a pronou...
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作者：Dibbern, Jens; Winkler, Jessica; Heinzl, Armin
作者单位：University of Mannheim
摘要：Gaining economic benefits from substantially lower labor costs has been reported as a major reason for offshoring labor-intensive information systems services to low-wage countries. However, if wage differences are so high, why is there such a high level of variation in the economic success between offshored IS projects? This study argues that offshore outsourcing involves a number of extra costs for the client organization that account for the economic failure of offshore projects. The object...
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作者：Olsson, Helena Holmstrom; Conchuir, Eoin O.; Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; University of Limerick; Uppsala University
摘要：This paper investigates two-stage offshoring as experienced by the Irish sites of two large global companies, head-quartered in the United States, with significant software development operations. As part of these companies, the Irish sites act as abridge in their offshoring arrangements: While the U.S. sites offshore work to Ireland, the Irish sites offshore work further to India and, hence, have experience of being both customer and vendor in two-stage offshore sourcing relationships. Using ...
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作者：Cha, Hoon S.; Pingry, David E.; Thatcher, Matt E.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; Salisbury University; University of Arizona; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas
摘要：In this paper, we present an economic learning model that helps to formalize the complex relationships among an offshoring firm's knowledge levels, production costs, and coordination costs. Specifically, we model a domestic firm's use of a selective offshore strategy (i.e., offshoring only a portion of its information technology activities) to exploit, through IT investments or contractual provisions, the foreign vendor's large, scale-driven repository of production knowledge. We illustrate th...
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作者：Ramasubbu, Narayan; Mithas, Sunil; Krishnan, M. S.; Kemerer, Chris F.
作者单位：Singapore Management University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：In this paper we develop a learning-mediated model of offshore software project productivity and quality to examine whether widely adopted structured software processes are effective in mitigating the negative effects of work dispersion in offshore software development. We explicate how the key process areas of the capability maturity model (CMM) can be utilized as a platform to launch learning routines in offshore software development and thereby explain why some offshore software development...
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作者：King, William R.; Torkzadeh, Gholamreza
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas
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作者：Gefen, David; Carmel, Erran
作者单位：Drexel University; American University
摘要：In a world that is flat, where all clients and providers can easily transact with one another, offshoring represents the proposition that information technology providers from low-wage nations can now underbid providers from high-wage nations and win contracts. We examined a particularly flat world-an online programming marketplace-and found that this profound tilt to low-wage nations is overstated We analyzed the entire history of transactions at one of the major online programming marketplac...
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作者：Straub, Detmar W.
