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Synching or sinking: global software outsourcing relationships

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: Global software outsourcing is the outsourcing of software development to subcontractors outside the client organization's home country, India is the leading GSO subcontractor, registering average annual growth of more than 40 percent over the last decade and developing nearly US$4 billion in software for foreign clients in FY 1999. Indian firms now develop software for nearly one-third of the Fortune 5002. The authors investigate the strategies that differentiate successful and unsuccessful value chain moves.

Source: IEEE Software

DOI: 10.1109/52.914744

Authors: R. Heeks, S. Krishna, B. Nicholsen, S. Sahay

Institutions: University of Manchester, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Language: English

Topic: Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

Subfield: Management Information Systems

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2018641481

FWCI: 18.04

Cites: 8

Cited by: 281

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