The New IT Outsourcing Landscape [electronic resource] : From Innovation to Cloud Services /
Willcocks, Leslie.
Willcocks, Leslie P.editor.
Lacity, Mary C.editor.
Written by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments in research and practice. It focuses on new practices in innovation, offshoring, onshoring, capabilities, project management and cloud services, offering a distinctive theory of outsourcing.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Boxes; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Emerging IT Outsourcing Landscape; Part I: The Outsourcing Landscape; 1 Mapping the IT Outsourcing Landscape: Review and Future Directions; 2 Transaction Cost Economics and After: Addressing The New Theory Challenge; Part II: Six Themes and New Directions; 3 Innovation: Step-Change in Outsourcing: Towards Collaborative Innovation; 4 Projects: Managing Escalation in Outsourcing; 5 Offshoring: Cross-Cultural Strategies from the Offshore Provider''s Perspective
6 Onshore: What about Rural Outsourcing?7 The Neglected Role of Middle Management in Outsourcing and Offshoring; 8 Cloud on the Landscape: Promises and Challenges; Appendices; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Written by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments in research and practice. It focuses on new practices in innovation, offshoring, onshoring, capabilities, project management and cloud services, offering a distinctive theory of outsourcing.
Leadership.
Production management.
Management.
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Planning.
Operations research.
Decision making.
International economics.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Operations Management.
Management.
Organization.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.
International Economics.