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    <title language="eng">Evaluation criteria for selecting offshoring candidates</title>
    <abstract language="eng">The  identification  of  suitable  applications  or  projects  is  a  main  initial  step  in  any  software  development  or maintenance  related  IS  offshoring  arrangement.  This  paper  examines  evaluation  criteria  and  their  importance  for  selecting application  or  project  candidates  for  offshoring.  Based  on  a  literature  analysis  and  interviews  with  47  experts  from  36 different German companies describing 64 case examples, we find that in contrast to the literature, “size”, “codification”, and “language”  are  perceived  as  important  selection  criteria  by  experts.  Case  examples  additionally  show  that  “business specificity”  seems  to  be  a  main  reason  for  application  or  project  failures,  that  “business  criticality”  appears  to  be  less important  than  suggested  by  the  literature,  and  that  adequate “size” might be a necessary prerequisite, but seems not to be a sufficient criterion for an application’s or project’s suitability for offshoring. These differences in comparison to findings from the literature may be explained by cultural and language differences.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">Journal of Information Technology Management</parentTitle>
    <subTitle language="eng">An analysis of practices in German businesses</subTitle>
    <identifier type="url">http://jitm.ubalt.edu/XIX-4/article2.pdf</identifier>
    <author>Markus Westner</author>
    <author>Susanne Strahringer</author>
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      <value>Offshoring</value>
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      <value>Nearshoring</value>
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      <value>Outsourcing</value>
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      <value>What to offshore</value>
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      <value>Selection criteria</value>
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      <value>Information systems</value>
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      <value>Betriebliches Informationssystem</value>
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    <collection role="ddc" number="0">Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke</collection>
    <collection role="institutes" number="FakIM">Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik</collection>
    <collection role="othforschungsschwerpunkt" number="16311">Digitalisierung</collection>
    <collection role="institutes" number="">Labor Regensburg Strategic IT Management (ReSITM)</collection>
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