enterprise diversification. The results suggest that quantifying the impacts of socioeconomic factors on variability of net farm …-section data, increases in interest costs, age, and diversification were found to have positive relationships with net income … variability. However, only the diversification variable was significant when deviations below mean net farm income were used as …

The global phenomenon of the IS/IT outsourcing continues to grow in importance. IS/IT outsourcing presents business …While the foundation of IS/IT outsourcing is ostensibly the transfer of financial and structural capital and vendor … protection of intellectual capital relies on appropriate staff transition processes. However, little outsourcing research exists …

The practice of outsourcing business is international with outsourcing of information technology (IT) systems leading … the outsourcing phenomena. In Australia outsourcing is consistent with international trends. Detailed research concludes … that organisations contemplate IT outsourcing for essentially thirteen reasons that fall within five categories. These …

consultative management. These values drive BAC’s strategy of maintaining a slim core, outsourcing, relationships building, and …

and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, BT is taking a strategic approach to outsourcing: this has resulted in a rapid … and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and … every outsourcing decision could have major security, legal, regulatory and contractual impacts. It is generally recognised …

Outsourcing and offshoring are changing the nature of the firm, and producing unprecedented international relocation of … where and why?’ to explain the outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon. We present a novel modelling approach to represent a firm … outsourcing and offshoring to the organization of the firm, and offer propositions that frame our economic modelling approach. We …

The outsourcing of IS functionality to offshore development firms has been a growth industry that has blossomed over … Financial Services firm in outsourcing, and subsequently offshoring, two of its IT projects to vendor firms in India, where …

A growing empirical literature indicates that outsourcing can deliver short term cuts in costs but leads to a long term … loss of productivity growth. In order to explain this outsourcing productivity paradox, the paper examines the connection … between total outsourcing and organisational innovation, a major contributor to productivity growth. This is done within a …

Outsourcing has become a vital strategic element in all kinds of organisations ranging frommanufacturing to the service … industry. Due to increasing trends a large number of organisations haveadopted or are in a process of adopting outsourcing …. Currently organisations practising outsourcing havea financial advantage over others. However, in due course, many others will …