Determinants of ASP choice: an integrated perspective

Accounting Executives and it Outsourcing Recommendations: An Experimental Study of the Effect of CIO Skills and Institutional Isomorphism

“…Although the majority of IS studies within RBT focused on determinants of firm performance, RBT-based ITO studies examined instead the factors leading to internal IT development vs IT acquisition choices (e.g., Cheon et al, 1995;McLellan et al, 1995;Teng et al, 1995;Roy and Aubert, 2002;Jayatilaka et al, 2003;Alvarez-Suescun, 2007). Such research has provided empirical support to Grant's (1991) conceptual argument that to the extent internal IT resources fall short of expectations or needs, organizations will look towards outsourcing to fill the gaps.…”

“…This perspective relies heavily on the resourcebased view of the firm, which characterizes the sourcing decision as a strategy to develop or acquire necessary IT resources to build sustainable competitive advantage (e.g., Cronk and Sharp, 1995;McLellan et al, 1995;Jayatilaka et al, 2003;Tiwana and Bush, 2007). Benbasat, 2007).…”

“…In addition, prior research points to IT managerial skills as the only likely source of technologyrelated sustained competitive advantage (Mata et al, 1995) and reports that firms with high quality internal IT personnel have less incentive to outsource (Roy and Aubert, 2002). Drawing on prior research, we explore the impact of the CIO's skills on ITO recommendations through a resource-based lens (e.g., Grover et al, 1994;Cheon et al, 1995;Cronk and Sharp, 1995;McLellan et al, 1995;Roy and Aubert, 2002;Jayatilaka et al, 2003;Tanriverdi et al, 2007). We hypothesize that when the CIO's skills are strong and he/she advises against ITO, the accounting executives are more likely to concur with his/her advice.…”

Web services innovation research: Towards a dual-core model

“…Within such virtual organization (VO), enterprise is able to gain best of breed e-business functionalities, and conduct e-commerce activities within unified ebusiness environment. Although the ASP/xSP business model has received considerable debates, however, with the rise in the availability of scalable network technologies and resources, ASP/xSP has become increasingly more feasible sources for obtaining IS services (see Foster et al, 2001;Jayatilaka, Schwarz, & Hirschheim, 2002). This is illustrated in Fig.…”

An exploratory study into factors of service quality for application service providers

“…They usually deliver www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw Information & Management 42 (2005) 1067-1080 services through the Internet and coordinate with network providers, hosting services, software vendors, and consultants. The key motivation to utilize ASP services is to reduce the cost of purchasing, installing, and maintaining software and related hardware [20,29].…”