Abstract The 2010 Journal of Information Technology (JIT) article,'A Review of the IT
Outsourcing Empirical Literature and Future Research Directions', analyzed 741 findings on …

IT multi-sourcing refers to the managed delegation of IT projects and services to multiple
vendors. While companies increasingly engage in multi-sourcing arrangements, theoretical …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to delineate key aspects of backshoring readiness and
discuss how such aspects contribute to a smooth shift-back from global sourcing operations …

We investigate the determinants of CIOs' organizational role and tasks. We first review
previous studies, which we classify as either evolutionary or CIO role studies. We consider …

Although IT outsourcing is a growing industry and a common topic in the literature, there is
limited research which critically analyses and assesses the switching of IT outsourcing …

The authors investigate the determinants of CIOs' organizational role and tasks. They first
review previous studies, which they classify as either evolutionary or CIO role studies. They …

We study how firms decide whether to continue an existing relationship or switch the vendor
of outsourced services. Because of incomplete contracts and relationship-specific …

Businesses located in high-cost countries have lived through almost five decades of
manufacturing offshoring and global sourcing practices. However, Western firms have …

Collaborative Networks represent organizational forms that became omnipresent in today's
way of making business. Such organizational forms are often established in order to satisfy a …

Increasingly, outsourcing companies decline to renew their contracts automatically at the
end of their duration [1, 2]. Furthermore, only a very few contracts are renewed in sole …