The myths and realities of information technology insourcing

By R. Hirschheim, Mary C. Lacity. CACM, 2000

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management Information Systems

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Information systems outsourcing: a survey and analysis of the literature (2004, background): “…and external bids (+) S Lacity & Willcocks (1998) Joint decision making by business and IS managers (+) S Lacity & Willcocks (1998) Competing outcomes Negative impact of IS cost reduction strategies on IS service quality S Hirschheim & Lacity (2000) Realization of Expectations.”
Information System Success: Individual and Organizational Determinants (2006, methodology): “Meta-Analysis We employed meta-analysis methods suggested by Hunter and Schmidt (1990) to compute corrected correlations among the constructs.”
A transaction cost model of IT outsourcing (2004, background): “Some evaluate if and how in-house services could be reorganized to provide firms with benefits similar to those of outsourcing [12,17].”
From the Vendor's Perspective: Exploring the Value Proposition in Information Technology Outsourcing (2003, background): “The intended benefits, however, often have not materialized (Hirschheim and Lacity 2000; Scheier 1997) and risks are significant (Aubert et al. 1998, 1999; Earl 1996).”
An Introduction to a Permutation Based Procedure for Multi-Group PLS Analysis: Results of Tests of Differences on Simulated Data and a Cross Cultural Analysis of the Sourcing of Information System Services Between Germany and the USA (2010, background): “At the same time however, it is one of the major reasons why some companies decide to keep there IS function in-house or to bring it back in-house (Dibbern et al. 2003; Hirschheim and Lacity 2000 ).”
Understanding software project risk: a cluster analysis (2004, background): “However, there has been no empirical effort to examine the implications of outsourcing on project risk [18].”
Information Technology and Business-Level Strategy: Toward an Integrated Theoretical Perspective (2013, background): “We also note a substantial literature on the governance of IT (particularly in the outsourcing arena—e.g., Hirschheim and Lacity 2000; Lacity and Hirschheim 1993, 1995).”