Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal: Volume 7 Issue 2

Seven challenges management must overcome when implementing IT-shared services

Frank Ulbrich, Veit Schulz

The purpose of this study is to empirically explore management challenges that management must overcome in the early phase of adopting IT-shared services. Organizations to an…

Through the lens of social capital: a research agenda for studying IT outsourcing

Beena George, Rudy Hirschheim, Alexander von Stetten

This paper proposes a new research agenda for information technology (IT) outsourcing,motivated by the belief that the social capital concept enables IT outsourcing researchers to…

A typology and meta-analysis of outsourcing relationship frameworks

Paul Lyons, Louis Brennan

The purpose of this paper was to consider 52 conceptual frameworks identified during a systematic literature review with the aim of providing insights into various aspects of…

Manufacturing and supply chain flexibility – towards a tool to analyse production network coordination at operational level

Anna Fredriksson, Carl Wänström

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the manufacturing and supply chain flexibility impact on the ability to transfer production between the units, i.e. production network…