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Evaluation criteria for selecting offshoring candidates

  • 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.

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Author:Markus WestnerORCiDGND, Susanne Strahringer
URL / DOI:http://jitm.ubalt.edu/XIX-4/article2.pdf
Parent Title (English):Journal of Information Technology Management
Subtitle (English):An analysis of practices in German businesses
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2008
Release Date:2019/11/29
Tag:Information systems; Nearshoring; Offshoring; Outsourcing; Selection criteria; What to offshore
GND Keyword:Betriebliches Informationssystem; Offshoring; Projekt; Evaluation
Volume:19
Issue:4
First Page:16
Last Page:34
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Regensburg Strategic IT Management (ReSITM)
research focus:Digitalisierung