...Mohammad Iranmanesh; Kok Hong Lim; Behzad Foroughi; Meen Chee Hong; Morteza Ghobakhloo Purpose Present research aims to study the determinants of big data analytics (BDA) adoption intention and outsourcing in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach...

... the potential benefits of purchasing portfolio management. Changsuk Ko can be contacted at: kochangsuk@163.com 24 09 2016 09 09 2017 02 05 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Outsourcing Negotiation styles...

... risk factors associated with IT outsourcing operation, and their empirical result demonstrated that a high level of complexity risk leads to a high level of requirement risk. Fan et al. (2012) argued that risk factors in IT outsourcing are interrelated with each other. Wallace et al...

...Shan Liu; Zhaohua Deng Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate trends in the dimensions of low, medium, and high knowledge management (KM) capability of business process outsourcing (BPO) firms. It also explores the trends in BPO performance with different levels of KM capabilities...

... the mobile office as their communication and business tool, in order to support or to change their current work environments. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the impact of outsourcing strategy on mobile office performance based on the FORT model and the MoBiS-Q to measure the performance...

... in industrial districts. The authors' aim is to understand the extent to which firms responded to these new challenges. More particularly, they investigate the determinants of innovation at firm level focusing on the role of firm's outsourcing strategies. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on an original...

... is the situation of municipal services' outsourcing in the largest Spanish town halls?”; “Do Spanish town halls follow the strategies suggested in Miles and Snow's model?”; and “Is there a relationship between the strategic position adopted by town halls and their stance on outsourcing?”. Design/methodology...

...Cher‐Hung Tseng; Liang‐Tu Chen Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence of transaction cost (TC) factors and the moderating influence of firm capability factors on the extent of domestic outsourcing of a multinational corporation (MNC) subsidiary. Design/methodology/approach A new...

...Matthew Walker; Melanie Sartore; Robin Taylor Purpose Outsourcing has been promoted as one of the most powerful trends in the modernization of marketing operations. The rationale for such an undertaking includes a variety of factors but is generally predicated on fiduciary considerations...

...Ali Rajabzadeh; Ali Asghar Anvary Rostamy; Ali Hosseini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the outsourcing process in the public sector, determine the effective factors involved in this process and their priorities. The aim is to develop a generic conceptual model for the outsourcing...

... and vendor companies. Design/methodology/approach This research uses multiple sources of previous research to isolate the key elements and form a theoretical model for the ideal outsourcing contract. The common problems identified were also derived from previous research. Findings The paper finds...

... to monitor their flow on an international scale and resort to several means of transport (road transport, sea transport and air transport), all the more so concerning handling and warehousing. That is why logistical outsourcing has been the solution chosen recently by many manufacturers and large retailers...

...Bin Jiang; Amer Qureshi Purpose Outsourcing emerged as a popular operational strategy in the 1990s and most of current literature was established in the same time. However, the result of outsourcing is still vague. The purpose of this article is to point out gaps in the current literature...

...Robert K. Perrons; Matthew G. Richards; Ken Platts Purpose of this paper The purpose of this investigation is to help establish: whether or not strong relationships between suppliers and customers improve performance; and if prescriptive frameworks on outsourcing radical innovations are dependent...

...Marc J. Schniederjans; Kathryn M. Zuckweiler Outsourcing manufacturing and services to differing locations throughout the world is a common practice today. Yet, very little research has dealt with the known risks of outsourcing when it takes place between business organizations in differing...

...Nicholas Wilson; Hao Zhang This paper explores the implications of the capabilities‐based framework in the context of a decision for a firm: whether or not to outsource the sales function to outside contractors. It demonstrates that, along with the transaction cost perspective, the capabilities...

...David Jennings This paper reviews the strategic benefits and problems relating to the outsourcing decision. These include issues of cost, quality, flexibility, strategic focus, leverage and diversification, the potential loss of critical skills and knowledge, and appropriation of final product...

...Zhiwei Zhu; Kathy Hsu; Joseph Lillie Outsourcing has become an important strategic tool in today’s competitive business environment. This paper describes the steps within four stages of outsourcing process: planning, developing, implementing and evaluation. The role of outsourcing being not only...

...Chris Fill; Elke Visser The decision to outsource a part of an organisation’s activities is often the result of an initiative to realise potential production cost efficiencies. In order to avoid the use of such narrow decision criteria this paper considers the use of a wider array of inputs...

...William M. Lankford; Faramarz Parsa Outsourcing is defined as the procurement of products or services from sources that are external to the organization. Firms should consider outsourcing when it is believed that certain support functions can be completed faster, cheaper, or better by an outside...