TY - JOUR
T1 - Offshoring propensity in information technology services
T2 - a firm and country level analysis
AU - Jain, Naveen Kumar
AU - Kundu, Sumit K.
AU - Niederman, Fred A.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - This conceptual paper examines the dynamics of the offshoring of information technology (IT) service work. It considers this important emerging phenomenon from multiple lenses, especially those of international business theories. • Research propositions are developed based on the perspectives of home country firms, host nation and the dynamic interactions between the two. Questions for future research are suggested. • Already established nations in the field get more opportunities than the new entrants to increase their competitiveness from experience-based knowledge gained as a result of the imitative actions of home country firms.
AB - This conceptual paper examines the dynamics of the offshoring of information technology (IT) service work. It considers this important emerging phenomenon from multiple lenses, especially those of international business theories. • Research propositions are developed based on the perspectives of home country firms, host nation and the dynamic interactions between the two. Questions for future research are suggested. • Already established nations in the field get more opportunities than the new entrants to increase their competitiveness from experience-based knowledge gained as a result of the imitative actions of home country firms.
KW - Firm and country level analysis
KW - Information technology
KW - Institutional theory
KW - Offshoring
KW - Transaction cost economics
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U2 - 10.1007/s11575-008-0026-8
DO - 10.1007/s11575-008-0026-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:71049188838
SN - 0938-8249
VL - 48
SP - 447
EP - 461
JO - Management International Review
JF - Management International Review
IS - 4
ER -