Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal: Volume 2 Issue 2

Changes in IT sourcing arrangements: An interpretive field study of technical and institutional influences

Bandula Jayatilaka, Rudy Hirschheim

Companies are increasingly changing their IT sourcing arrangements. Such changes often involve significant costs. The purpose of this paper is to explore and explain IT sourcing…

Beyond job losses: The net effects of offshoring and inshoring on employment in the Danish economy

Peter D. Ørberg Jensen, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Nicolai Søndergaard Laugesen

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of offshoring and inshoring on the demand for different types of labor.

Criteria for sourcing from developing countries

Adegoke Oke, Arnold Maltz, Poul Erik Christiansen

Increasingly, sourcing decisions are routinely including contract manufacturers and suppliers in developing countries. While many studies have researched and identified the…

A standard agreement for vendor managed inventory

Francesco Zammori, Marcello Braglia, Marco Frosolini

The purpose of this paper is to define the standard structure of a vendor managed inventory (VMI) agreement, which can be used as a guideline for the early definition of the…

Outsourcing in China: opportunities, challenges and lessons learned: INDUSTRY INSIGHT

Wendell O. Jones

The purpose of this paper is to identify the opportunities, challenges and lessons of information technology outsourcing (ITO) in China.