Offshoring information technology: Sourcing and outsourcing to a global workforce

By Robert M. Davison. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2006

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Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy (2008, background): “Thus we position opensourcing as an exemplar of global sourcing (Carmel and Tjia 2005) in an offshoring context (i.”
Innovating or Doing as Told? Status Differences and Overlapping Boundaries in Offshore Collaboration (2008, background): “For example, it has been argued that differences in national culture are among the key challenges to offshore collaboration (Carmel and Agarwal 2001; Carmel and Tjia 2005; Cusumano 2006; Cramton and Hinds 2007; Dibbern et al. 2007).”
Explaining Variations in Client Extra Costs Between Software Projects Offshored to India (2008, background): “…that go beyond the actual payments to the vendor, that is, beyond compensating the vendor's costs plus paying the vendor's profit margin (Carmel and Tija 2005, p. 40).4 The payments to the vendor could either be specified in a fixed price contract or accounted for in a time and material…”
Offshoring and the global distribution of work: Implications for task interdependence theory and practice (2009, background): “It includes transferring some of the company's work to offshore outsourcing vendors, as well as to captive subsidiaries and divisions of the company located offshore (Carmel & Tjia, 2005; Kaiser & Hawk, 2004).”