IT Backsourcing: Is it the Solution to Innovation?

Beardsell, Julie

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“…Reshoring "Moving manufacturing back to the country of its parent company" [37] [20], [37] Moreover, McLaughlin and Peppard [9] integrated backsourcing into an end-to-end sourcing model, which means that backsourcing is one of several alternatives of sourcing options. Finally, Beardsell [38] tried to determine whether backsourcing improves the firm's innovative capability by integrating a broad range of theories.…”

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Information System Backsourcing: A Systematic Literature Analysis

Leyh

Schäffer

Nguyễn

2018

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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As information technology (IT) in private and public organizations continues to gain importance, information system outsourcing (ISO) has become a critical component of corporate strategy for many institutions. Consequently, a substantial amount of research has investigated topics around ISO decisions and outcomes. However, despite decades of ISO research, analyses that focus on information system (IS) backsourcing remain scarce. Therefore, in this paper, we share the results of a systematic literature analysis of papers that consider IS backsourcing. Within our paper, IS backsourcing is integrated into the wider research landscape of ISO. Finally, our study clearly identifies the need for further and more extensive research on IS backsourcing. The high dissatisfaction and failure of outsourcing arrangements should not be ignored. Both sourcing decisions and existing outsourcing arrangements must be analysed carefully and in the long term to ensure the success of the company.

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Information System Backsourcing: A Systematic Literature Analysis

Leyh

Schäffer

Nguyễn

2018

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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“…Concerning the relationship closing phase, beyond the hypothesis of the expiration of the contract, it is necessary to estimate before the implications which could occur subsequent to the choices of the outsourcing reversion, that is hypothesis of renegotiation of terms and conditions of the contract, change of provider or re-introduction of back sourcing activity, function or process (Beardsell, 2010;Kotlarsky & Bognar, 2012).…”

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The Role of the Outsourcing Contract From a Partnership-based Perspective

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2017

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The definition of relational contents which outsourcer and outsourcee arrange and formalize inside a contract is one of the critical success factors of the outsourcing choice. The contract criticality is greater if the outsourcing aim is made of highly strategic activities, functions, or processes and if the real aim is not the cost saving but the sharing of added value resources, skills, and knowledge. That is, this paper aims to provide some conceptual insights about the role of the contract with a specific reference to the strategic outsourcing, which is the kind of outsourcing where the relationship between the outsourcer and outsourcee is set inside the "partnership-based" logic. In particular the remarks proposed concern the role of the contract as a tool to face the risk and manage the relationship.

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“…The process of managing financial decisions in the IT sector in the last decade was influenced by the multitude of financial, business and social crises starting from the infamous dot-com bust of the early 2000s (Lewellen, 2003), followed by the IT downturn connected to the events of September 11, 2001 (Posner & Vermeule, 2008) and the financial crisis, which started in 2007 (Pezzuto, 2008). In the view of these events a large number of IT companies are considering bringing their IT functions back in-house in order to preserve costs and have better control over the development efforts (Beardsell, 2010).…”

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Recommendations on Skill Evaluation of IT Computer Professionals and Recent IT Program Graduates

Pustylnick

2010

SSRN Journal

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IT Backsourcing: Is it the Solution to Innovation?

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Information System Backsourcing: A Systematic Literature Analysis

Information System Backsourcing: A Systematic Literature Analysis

The Role of the Outsourcing Contract From a Partnership-based Perspective

Recommendations on Skill Evaluation of IT Computer Professionals and Recent IT Program Graduates

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