Australia has been at the forefront of the adoption of outsourcing as a means for delivering IT services, but the … success of IT outsourcing in Australia has been mixed. With two hundred and forty one responses from the top 1000 IT users in … the country, the survey reported in this paper is one of the largest and most representative IT outsourcing studies in the …

This study analyses the motives and results of outsourcing. According to the results, companies have pursued … outsourcing for a variety of reasons. Cost savings are the major driving force behind the outsourcing of production function …. Increased flexibility, focusing and additional capacity are other important motives. In most cases, R&D outsourcing is driven by …