
IS Offshoring
Essays on Project Suitability and Success
Markus Westner(Author)
Springer Gabler (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 295 pages
978-3-8349-2046-1 (ISBN)
Description
The industrialization of service industries is a phenomenon which industries such as banking and finance adopted several years ago. Although IT can be considered an enabler in these efforts, the IT industry itself has not yet taken much advantage of industrialization. As this is slowly changing, ideas like global sourcing and global value chains have entered the mindset of top and middle IT management. Although sourcing IT services from near or far away countries in order to profit from labor cost differentials is a topic frequently generating a lot of controversy, it can no longer be ignored as one of several options for staying globally competitive. Even though some businesses promise to refrain from offshoring in order to strengthen local economies, they might not be willing to accept the costs of IT services fully provided domestically. Thus, even businesses which are reluctant when it comes to directly offshoring their own IT services might be indirectly profiting from it as they expect their service providers to stay globally competitive - be it by offshoring or by any other means. With this controversy in mind, it is exceptionally important that offshoring endeavors turn out to be as successful as possible or at least as successful as expected. However, businesses indulging in offshoring do not necessarily report convincing outcomes. Particularly in the case of offshoring from non-English speaking countries, language barriers seem to be significantly impeding offshoring success.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Publishing group
Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Gabler
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
61 s/w Abbildungen
X, 295 p. 61 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8349-2046-1 (9783834920461)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-8349-8407-4
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Persons
Markus K. Westner earned his doctoral degree from the European Business School under Prof. Dr. Susanne Strahringer's chairmanship. He lives in Munich and works for an international management consultancy based in Boston.
Content
IS Offshoring: A Systematic Review of the Literature.- Offshore Suitability: Criteria for Selecting IS Applications or Projects for Offshoring.- Determinants of Success in IS Offshoring Projects.