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Software Complexity and Organization of Firms’ Offshoring Activities

verfasst von : Arto Ojala, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Ning Su, Kalle Lyytinen

Erschienen in: Nordic Contributions in IS Research

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Abstract

How does software complexity shape software providers’ offshoring tasks, and how do such firms organize their offshoring activity? These questions are important, since the global software development market is growing rapidly, offering new opportunities for software managers and entrepreneurs to distribute their activities geographically. Based on a multi-site case study of 12 software firms, we study connections between software complexity and the offshoring strategies selected. Our findings suggest that software firms select a variety of organizational structures for their offshoring activity, and that the selection is shaped by the complexity of the software in question.

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In line with Jarke and Lyytinen [8] we refer here to external software complexity.
 
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Activities (i)–(ii) were related to software development for foreign customers, whereas activities (iii)–(iv) were supporting services.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Software Complexity and Organization of Firms’ Offshoring Activities
verfasst von
Arto Ojala
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki
Ning Su
Kalle Lyytinen
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Buch
Nordic Contributions in IS Research

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64694-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64695-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64695-4_2