Title
Retained Organizations in IT Outsourcing - Linking Organization Design to Outsourcing Management Problems.
Abstract
IT outsourcing is a strategic option which enables companies to focus on their core competencies. Over time however, many outsourcing arrangements suffer from severe problems. While the design of retained organizations is generally seen as a critical element, there is hardly any empirical evidence on how the choice of the organizational setup is linked to the occurrence of outsourcing management problems later on. In this work, a quantitative study across various outsourcing arrangements is used to identify the key outsourcing management problems and their interdependency with organizational attributes of retained organizations. It is shown that the key problems differ by outsourcing degree, and critical organizational attributes for each of these problems are unveiled. The paper’s objective is to enhance the design of retained organizations to enable more mature and successful outsourcing solutions as well as to provide foundations for future IS research.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
Business & Information Systems Engineering
Interdependence,Core competency,Empirical evidence,Computer science,Organizational architecture,Outsourcing,Knowledge management,Knowledge process outsourcing
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
59
2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
25
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marius Goldberg1102.64
Axel Kieninger2637.55
Gerhard Satzger39923.89
Hansjörg Fromm4148.33