The Risks and Effects of Outsourcing on the Information Systems Function and the Firm
Description:
IS outsourcing, especially large-scale IS outsourcing, is a comparatively recent and rapidly growing IS phenomenon, but it is also an inherently risky activity. In an IS outsourcing arrangement, the outsourcing vendor accepts responsibility for IS resources and functions formerly controlled directly by the firm. This research examines IS outsourcing from two perspectives. (1) From an IS perspective, it examines the risk perceptions of IS managers of fourteen Fortune-500 firms who had recently c…
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Date:
May 1994
Creator:
Peak, Daniel Alan
Partner:
UNT Libraries