...Hammed Ojugbele; Shamim Bodhanya Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use modeling and simulation to investigate the puzzling performance problems that plagued the project outsourcing in term of poor quality and delivery delay, and apply the appeal and power of system dynamics modeling...

...Yi Lin; Hejing Xiong; Mianyun Chen; Zhixue Liu; Juan Xu; Yan Li; Xiaojing Wang; Jianbo Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use systemic thinking to explain and predict the cost of logistics outsourcing, and to devise policies to minimize the cost of risk. Design/methodology/approach...

...Sifeng Liu; Jeffrey Forrest; Yingie Yangjie; Ke Zhang; Chuanmin Mi; Naiming Xie; Jie Cao; Guo Cao; Weiwei Wang Purpose Considering the limitation of the single stage vendor selection model, this paper proposes a two‐stage vendor selection framework for IT outsourcing in microfinance banks...

...Klemen Kavčič; Mitja I. Tavčar Purpose This paper aims to deal with the dynamic aspect of outsourcing – in the world of business, change is the only constant, nothing is permanent, which also holds true for the relationships in outsourcing. Thus, we should think about the consequences...

...Matjaz Mulej; Miroslav Rebernik; Barbara Bradač Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate possible opportunistic behaviour in transformational outsourcing relationship and to indicate possibilities how to avoid it. Design/methodology/approach On the basis of literature survey authors...