IS Offshoring - Essays on Project Suitability and Success. (ebs-Forschung Schriftenreihe der European Business School Schloß Reichartshausen, Band 73)

Foreword

Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction

IS Offshoring: A Systematic Review of the Literature*

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables

A Introductions

A.1 Background and Motivation

A.2 Paper Structure

B Conceptualization of IS Offshoring

B.1 Definition

B.2 Relation to IS Outsourcing

B.3 History and Current Development

C Methodology

C.1 Review Approach Overview

C.2 Literature Retrieval

C.3 Literature Item Exclusion

C.4 Literature Categorization Framework

C.5 Research Validity

D Results

D.1 Selection of Relevant Literature

D.2 Descriptive Analysis of Relevant Literature

D.3 Findings along IS Offshoring Stages

E Discussion of Findings and Implications for Future Research

E.1 Research Design

E.2 IS offshoring Stages

F Conclusions

Appendix

Literature Categorization

Annotated Bibliography

References

Offshore Suitability: Criteria for Selecting IS Applications or Projects for Offshoring*

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables

A Introductions

A.1 Background and Motivation

A.2 Research Questions

A.3 Research Focus

A.4 Paper Structure

B Theoretical Frame and Prior Research

B.1 Theory-Derived Selection Criteria

B.2 Prior Research on Selection Criteria

B.3 IS Offshoring Expertise Frameworks

C Methodology

C.1 Research Approach

C.2 Research Design

D Data Collection

D.1 Expert Interviews and Case Samples

D.2 Survey

E Analysis

E.1 Expert Panel

E.2 Selection Criteria

E.3 Comparison with Prior Research on Selection Criteria

E.4 Comparison with Theoretical Views

E.5 Criteria Contribution to Offshoring Success

E.6 Criteria Importance in Relation to Offshoring Expertise

F Conclusions

F.1 Main Contributions

F.2 Limitations

F.3 Opportunities for Future Research

Appendix

Literature-Derived Offshore Selection Criteria

Company Lists

Cover Letter as Used in XING

Characteristics of All Interviewed Experts in Comparison to the Subset of Ex-perts who Answered Research Phase Two’s Survey

Interview Guideline

List of Interviewed Experts and Corresponding Companies

Survey

Variable Naming

Descriptive Statistics

References

Determinants of Success in IS Offshoring Projects*

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables

A Introductions

A.1 Background and Motivation

A.2 Research Questions

A.3 Research Focus

A.4 Paper Structure

B Theoretical Foundations

B.1 IS Offshoring Implementation Process

B.2 Reference Theories for Success Determinants3

C Research Model

C.1 Overview

C.2 Offshore Project Success

C.3 Exogenous Determinants of Offshore Project Success

C.4 Endogenous Determinants of Offshore Project Success

D Methodology

D.1 Research Approach

D.2 Research Design

D.3 Measurement Instrument

D.4 Statistical Procedures

E Data Collection

E.1 Data Source

E.2 Response Rate

F Analyses and Results

F.1 Response Structure

F.2 Descriptive Analyses

F.3 Offshore Project Success Analyses of Variances

F.4 Structural Equation Model Analysis

G Discussion of Results

G.1 Exogenous Determinants of Offshore Project Success

G.2 Endogenous Determinants of Offshore Project Success

H Conclusions

H.1 Contributions

H.2 Managerial Implications

H.3 Limitations

H.4 Directions for Future Research

Appendix

Test of Normality

Test for Differences between Early and Late Responders

E-Mail Text: First Contact Round

E-Mail Text: Reminder Round

Survey Instrument

Classification: Near- and Offshore Countries

Pre-Test of Research Model

Analyses of Mediating and Moderating Effects between Constructs PROKNW and ACHKNW

Cross-Loadings of Constructs

References