One noticeable trend in a maturing Information Technology (IT) outsourcing industry is the growing interest from client firms to benefit from supplier-led innovations. Yet, IT outsourcing suppliers still find it challenging to shift their reputation from the competent provision of a low-end...

One noticeable trend in the maturing information technology (IT) outsourcing industry is the growing interest from client firms seeking to benefit from supplier-led innovations. Yet IT outsourcing suppliers still find it challenging to shift their reputation from the competent provision of a...

A captive centre is a business unit that is owned and provides services to the parent firm from an offshore location. In this paper we seek to apply a historical perspective in order to understand what factors shaped its development path. In particular we are interested to document and explain...

The offshore outsourcing of information technologies (IT) started in the 1990s, following the outsourcing trend in manufacturing industries. In particular, the recent trend has been characterized by offshoring of various IT processes and services to external contractors at offshore locations....

Chapter 1 The Outsourcing Pivot: Advances and Challenges -- Part I Governing Traditional Outsourcing Services -- Chapter 2 The Governing Mechanisms of Successful Multisourcing Projects -- Chapter 3 What The Guardian Does in Multisourcing Projects -- Chapter 4 IT Multi-sourcing and Opportunistic...