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It offshore outsourcing: Contingency and strategies

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Abstract

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 interactions among firm, supplier, and business environment and suggests the important role of contingency in predicting the firm's strategic response to offshoring which is manifested by the level of offshoring engagement. This paper contributes to the theory development of IT offshore outsourcing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAssociation for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007
Subtitle of host publicationReaching New Heights
Pages1324-1334
Number of pages11
StatePublished - 2007
Event13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007 - Keystone, CO, United States
Duration: Aug 10 2007Aug 12 2007

Publication series

NameAssociation for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights
Volume2

Conference

Conference13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKeystone, CO
Period08/10/0708/12/07

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