Title: Strategic sourcing of information systems : perspectives and practices /
Authors: Willcocks, Leslie.; Lacity, Mary Cecelia
Publisher: Wiley,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Electronic data processing departments Contracting out.
Contents: The sourcing and outsourcing of IS : shock of the new? / Leslie P. Willcocks and Mary C. Lacity -- The outsourcing of information services : transforming the nature of business in the information industry / Thomas Clark, Robert Zmud and Gordon McCray -- Towards a theoretically-based contingency model of information systems outsourcing / Varun Grover, James T.C. Teng and Myun J. Cheon -- Can game theory help us to understand information service outsourcing contracts? / Ramy Elitzur and Anthony Wensley -- The external acquisition of information systems knowledge / Harry Scarbrough -- A framework for IS outsourcing strategy in private and public sector contexts / Jonathan Cronk and John Sharp -- A risk-return model for information technology outsourcing decisions / Jaak Jurison -- Financial and startegic motivations behind IS outsourcing / Kerry McLellan, Barbara L. Marcolin and Paul W. Beamish -- Information systems outsourcing : theories, case evidence and a decision framework / Leon A. de Looff -- Outsourcing practices and views of America's most effective IS users / Marion G. Sobol and Uday Apte -- The management of partnering development in IS outsourcing / Robert Klepper -- Setting up outsourced information technology service companies / Tapio Reponen -- Failure in software outsourcing : a case analysis / Soon Ang and See-Kiat Toh -- Problems and issues in offshore development of software / T.M. Rajkumar and Donald L. Dawley.