Outsourcing management information systems

"This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what",...

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Other Authors Schniederjans, Marc J., Schniederjans, Ashlyn M., Schniederjans, Dara G.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey PA : Idea Group Pub., c2007.
SeriesGale Reference.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781599041971
1599041952 (hardcover)
1599041960 (softcover)
1599041979 (ebook)
1599041979
9781628702170
1628702176
1280707127
9781280707124
9786610707126
661070712X
9781599041957
9781599041964
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 383 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Conceptual evolution of business organizations into outsourcing-insourcing alliance networks / Ashlyn M. Schniederjans, Dara G. Schniederjans
  • Why, when and what to outsource / Donald A. Carpenter, Vijay K. Agrawal
  • Planning for information systems outsourcing / Vijay K. Agrawal, Donald A. Carpenter
  • Strategic and tactical planning of outsourcing in MIS / Jeanette Nasem Morgan
  • Establishing performance metrics for managing the outsourced MIS project / Jeanette Nasem Morgan
  • The case for centralized IT contract management : a four force model / Anthony Briggs, Eric Walden, James J. Hoffman
  • Decision-making methods in MIS outsourcing : case studies of successes and failures / Jeanette Nasem Morgan
  • Lessons learned from successes and failures in information systems outsourcing / Kathryn M. Zuckweiler
  • Information systems outsourcing decision : case of the automotive industry / Rafael Lapiedra [and others]
  • Outsourcing information technology : the role of social capital / James J. Hoffman, Eric A. Walden, Mark L. Hoelscher
  • Outsourcing of services by service firms : an empirical investigation / Masaaki Kotabe, Janet Y. Murray, Maneesh Chandra
  • Outsourcing and information systems development : how complementary corporate cultures minimize the risks of outsourced systems projects / Julie E. Kendall, Kenneth E. Kendall
  • Managing risks of IT outsourcing / Leonardo Legorreta, Rajneesh Goyal
  • A framework for evaluating outsourcing risk / Merrill Warkentin, April M. Adam
  • A goal programming model for evaluating outsourcing partners on a global scale / James J. Hoffman [and others]
  • Real option appraisal in R & D outsourcing / Qing Cao, Karyl B. Leggio
  • The application of real options to the R & D outsourcing decision / Qing Cao, David N. Ford, Karyl B. Leggio
  • An application of multicriteria decision-making model to strategic outsourcing for effective supply-chain linkages / N.K. Kwak, Chang Won Lee
  • Is the business model broken? : a model of the difference between pay-now and pay-later contracts in IT outsourcing / Eric Walden, Param Vir Singh.