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Outsourcing management information systems

"This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what",...

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Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Schniederjans, Marc J., Schniederjans, Ashlyn M., Schniederjans, Dara G.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
Subjects:
Information technology > Management.
Contracting out.
Offshore outsourcing.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
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245 0 0 |a Outsourcing management information systems  |c [edited by] Marc J. Schniederjans, Ashlyn M. Schniederjans, Dara G. Schniederjans.  |h [electronic resource] / 
260 # # |a Hershey, Pa. :  |b IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),  |c c2007. 
300 # # |a electronic texts (xix, 383 p. : ill.) :  |b digital files. 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 # |a Section I: Fundamental Issues in Information System Outsourcing -- 1. Conceptual Evolution of Business Organizations into Outsourcing-Insourcing Alliance Networks -- 2. Why, When, and What to Outsource -- 3. Planning for Information Systems Outsourcing -- 4. Strategic and Tactical Planning of Outsourcing in MIS -- 
505 0 # |a Section II: Decision-Making Issues in Management Information Systems Outsourcing -- 5. Establishing Performance Metrics for Managing the Outsourced MIS Project -- 6. The Case for Centralized IT Contract Management: A Four Force Model -- 7. Decision-Making Methods in MIS Outsourcing: Case Studies of Successes and Failures -- 8. Lessons Learned from Successes and Failures in Information Systems Outsourcing -- 9. Information System Outsourcing Decision: Case Study on the Automotive Industry -- 10. Outsourcing Information Technology: The Role of Social Capital -- 11. Outsourcing of Services by Service Firms: An Empirical Investigation -- 
505 0 # |a Section III: Risk Issues in Management Information Systems Outsourcing -- 12. Outsourcing and Information Systems Development: How Complementary Corporate Cultures Minimize the Risks of Outsourced Systems Projects -- 13. Managing Risks of IT Outsourcing -- 14. A Framework for Evaluating Outsourcing Risk -- 
505 0 # |a Section IV: Quantitative Methods in Management Information System Outsourcing -- 15. A Goal Programming Model for Evaluating Outsourcing Partners on a Global Scale -- 16. Real Option Appraisal in R&D Outsourcing -- 17. The Application of Real Options to the R&D Outsourcing Decision -- 18. An Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model to Strategic Outsourcing for Effective Supply-Chain Linkages -- 19. Is the Business Model Broken? A Model of the Difference Between Pay-Now and Pay-Later Contracts in IT Outsourcing -- About the Authors -- Index. 
506 # # |a Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. 
520 3 # |a "This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what", "why", and "where" aspects of outsourcing as well as the methodological "how" aspects"--Provided by publisher. 
530 # # |a Also available in print. 
538 # # |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
588 # # |a Title from ebook home page (viewed on July 13, 2010). 
650 # 0 |a Information technology  |x Management. 
650 # 0 |a Contracting out. 
650 # 0 |a Offshore outsourcing. 
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700 1 # |a Schniederjans, Ashlyn M. 
700 1 # |a Schniederjans, Dara G. 
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