Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal: Volume 3 Issue 2

How knowledge and technology relate in creating value: An Italian case of technology outsourcing

Adelaide Ippolito, Paola Zoccoli

The aim of this paper is to investigate the importance of managing outsourcing without allowing learning skills to become atrophied, but instead ensuring that the transfer of…

The perceived benefits of business process outsourcing: An empirical study of the German banking industry

Heiko Gewald

The purpose of this paper is to provide an in‐depth analysis of the benefits senior management associate with business process outsourcing (BPO) and how these benefits are valued…

Value co‐creation and resource based perspectives for strategic sourcing

David D. Dobrzykowski, Oanh Tran, Monideepa Tarafdar

The purpose of this paper is to develop and illustrate a theoretically grounded framework capable of strategic guidance in making sourcing decisions.

A QFD‐based technique to select and manage reverse e‐auctions

Massimo Bertolini, Gionata Carmignani

In the 1990s, reverse e‐auctions were designed to be a widely used procurement tool due to the dramatic cost reduction. However, the current usage is more limited than expected…

Sourcing, insourcing and two times outsourcing: four phases of procurement of telecommunications services within the Swedish public sector

Staffan Brege, Per‐Olof Brehmer, Helena Lindskog

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze how and why the question of outsourcing or insourcing within a specific empirical context, telecommunications services, has…