49 research outputs found
Research in information systems: A study of diversity and inter-disciplinary discourse in the AIS basket journals between 1995 and 2011
No full textThe paper investigates how Information Systems (IS) has emerged as the product of interdisciplinary discourses. The research aim in this study is to better understand diversity in IS research, and the extent to which the diversity of discourse expanded and contracted from 1995 to 2011. Methodologically, we apply a combined citations/co-citations analysis based on the eight Association for Information Systems basket journals and the 22 subject-field classification framework provided by the Association of Business Schools. Our findings suggest that IS is in a state of continuous interaction and competition with other disciplines. General Management was reduced from a dominant position as a reference discipline in IS at the expense of a growing variety of other discourses including Business Strategy, Marketing, and Ethics and Governance, among others. Over time, IS as a field moved from the periphery to a central position during its discursive formation. This supports the notion of IS as a fluid discipline dynamically embracing a diverse range of adjacent reference disciplines, while keeping a degree of continuing interaction with them. Understanding where IS is currently at allows us to better understand and propose fruitful avenues for its development in both academia and practice
Complexity and information systems: The emergent domain
No full textThis paper is concerned with the emergence of the information systems (IS) domain as a central feature of the management research landscape in the networked world. It shows that the emergence of the network economy and network society (Castells, 1996) necessitates a paradigm shift in the IS discipline, and that complexity science offers the apposite concepts and tools for effecting such a shift
Competition and Wage Effects in the Global Online Market for Microwork and Services Outsourcing
No full textA new form of service outsourcing has emerged, namely the global online job marketplace for freelance contractors. Such platforms are currently the closest proxy to the idea of a global labor market. In this chapter, we examine how competition manifests itself on one such global online platform, namely oDesk. We present a comparative analysis of the relative wages and the rewarding of skills and expertise of contractors from selected countries in the Global North and South. We find that wage convergence takes place but that experience and skills hardly translate into better remuneration. While online service outsourcing provides new employment opportunities for freelancers around the world, the intense competition and the inherent restrictions of this model limit the financial gains for most of them
In search of Europe's information technology leaders: review of methods and empirical evidence
No full textSOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT IT OUTSOURCING PROCESS
No full textIT outsourcing is the practice of contracting out the running of a part of an organization computer department. It is not a new phenomenon, but the scale and scope of its occurrence has greatly increased over the last decade. Due to the fact that IT outsourcing has no obviously and quantifiable benefits, most of the business entities choose not to do outsource their IT. The paper is based on the idea of incapability of exact determination of IT services costs. The purpose of this research regards the layout of the current approaches to outsourcing, description of different types of IT outsourcing and their advantages and the analysis of some models which might be used in order to facilitate the IT decision making process.Outsourcing, Information Technology, Information Systems, Application Services Provider, IT Risks
Risk mitigation in IT outsourcing strategy revisited: longitudinal case research at LISA
No full textInside information technology outsourcing A state-of-the-art report
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Competition and wage effects in the global online market for microwork and services outsourcing
No full textA new form of service outsourcing has emerged, namely the global online job marketplace for freelance contractors. Such platforms are currently the closest proxy to the idea of a global labor market. In this chapter, we examine how competition manifests itself on one such global online platform, namely oDesk. We present a comparative analysis of the relative wages and the rewarding of skills and expertise of contractors from selected countries in the Global North and South. We find that wage convergence takes place but that experience and skills hardly translate into better remuneration. While online service outsourcing provides new employment opportunities for freelancers around the world, the intense competition and the inherent restrictions of this model limit the financial gains for most of them
