The choice of sourcing mechanisms for business processes

Information Systems Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 280-299

  Tanriverdi, Hüseyin ^a   Konana, Prabhudev ^a   Ge, Ling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digitally enabled extended enterprise; Information technology detachability; Insourcing; Modular systems theory; New organizational forms; Offshoring; Outsourcing; Process modularity; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; SYSTEM THEORY;

EXTENDED ENTERPRISE; INSOURCING; MODULAR SYSTEM; NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; OFF-SHORING; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 61349127915     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1070.0129     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Amemiya, T. 1985. Advanced Econometrics, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
2. Anderson, E. 1985. The salesperson as outside agent or employee: A transaction cost analysis. Marketing Sci. 4(3) 234-254.
3. Anderson, E., D. C. Schmittlein. 1984. Integration of the sales force - An empirical-examination. Rand J. Econom. 15(3) 385-395.
4. Anderson, C. R., C. P. Zeithaml. 1984. Stage of the product lifecycle, business strategy, and business performance. Acad. Management J. 27(1) 5-24.
5. Ang, S., D. W. Straub. 1998. Production and transaction economies and is outsourcing: A study of the U.S. banking industry. MIS Quart. 22(4) 535-552.
6. Artz, K. W., T. H. Brush. 2000. Asset specificity, uncertainty and relational norms: An examination of coordination costs in collaborative strategic alliances. J. Econom. Behav. Organ. 41(4) 337-362.
7. Augier, M., H. A. Simon. 2003. The architecture of complexity: Background and central idea. R. Garud, A. Kumaraswamy, R. N. Langlois, eds. Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations. Blackwell Publishing, Maiden, MA, 38-44.
8. Bagozzi, R. P., Y. Yi, L. W. Phillips. 1991. Assessing construct validity in organizational research. Admin. Sci. Quart. 36 421-458.
9. Baldwin, C. Y., K. B. Clark. 1997. Managing in an age of modularity. Harvard Bus. Rev. 75(5) 84-93.
10. Baldwin, C. Y., K. B. Clark. 2000. Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
11. Baldwin, C. Y., K. B. Clark. 2006. Where do transactions come from? A network design perspective on the theory of the firm. Harvard NOM Working Paper 06-12. http://ssrn.com/abstract=901790.
12. Barki, H., S. Rivard. 1993. Toward an assessment of software development risk. J. Management Inform. Systems 10(2) 203-225.
13. Barki, H., S. Rivard, J. Talbot. 2001. An integrative contingency model of software project risk management. J. Management Inform. Systems 17(4) 37-69.
14. Barney, J. 1991. Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. J. Management 17(1) 99-120.
15. Benner, M. J. 2002. Process management and technological innovation: A longitudinal study of the photography and paint industries. Admin, Sci. Quart. 47(4) 676-706.
16. Clemons, E. K., L. M. Hitt. 2004. Poaching and the misappropriation of information: Transaction risks of information exchange. J. Management Inform. Systems 21(2) 87-107.
17. CMMI. 2002. Capability maturity model integration version 1.1. Carnegie Mellon Software Institute, Pittsburgh, PA.
18. Dillman, D. A. 2000. Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
19. DiRomualdo, A., V. Gurbaxani. 1998. Strategic intent for IT outsourcing. Sloan Management Rev. 39(4) 67-80.
20. Ethiraj, S. K., D. Levinthal. 2004. Modularity and innovation in complex systems. Management Sci. 50(2) 159-173.
21. Ethiraj, S. K., P. Kale, M. S. Krishnan, J. V. Singh. 2005. Where do capabilities come from and how do they matter? A study in the software services industry. Strategic Management J. 26(1) 25-45.
22. Evans, D. S., A. Hagiu, R. Schmalensee. 2006. Invisible Engines: How Software Plutforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
23. Farrell, J., G. Saloner. 1992. Converters, compatibility, and the control of interfaces. J. Indust. Econom. 40(1) 9-35.
24. Gailbraith, J. R. 1973. Designing Complex Organization. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
25. Goo, J., R. Kishore, H. R. Rao. 2000. A content-analytic longitudinal study of the drivers for information technology and systems outsourcing. S. Ang, H. Krcmar, W. J. Orlikowski, P. Weill, J. DeGross, eds. Proc. 21st Internat. Conf. Inform. Systems. Association of Information Systems, Atlanta, GA, 601-611.
26. Greene, M. H. 2000. Econometric Analysis, 4th ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
27. Hagel, J., J. S. Brown. 2005. The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA.
28. Harter, D. E., M. S. Krishnan, S. A. Slaughter. 2000. Effects of process maturity on quality, cycle time, and effort in software product development. Management Sci. 46(4) 451-466.
29. Infosys. 2007. Global delivery model. http://www.infosys.com/gdm/default. asp.
30. Keller, R. T. 1994. Technology information-processing fit and the performance of R-and-D project groups: A test of contingency theory. Acad. Management J. 37(1) 167-179.
31. Langlois, R. N. 2002. Modularity in technology and organization. J. Econom. Behav. Organ. 49(1) 19-37.
32. Langlois, R. N. 2006. The secret life of mundane transaction costs. Organ. Stud. 27(9) 1389-1410.
33. Leclcre, M. J. 1999. The interpretation of coefficients in models with n-qualitative or ordered dependent variables. Contemporary Accounting Res. 16(4) 711-747.
34. Leiblein, M. J., D. J. Miller. 2003. An empirical examination of transaction- and firm-level influences on the vertical boundaries of the firm. Strategic Management J. 24(9) 839-859.
35. Levina, N., J. W. Ross. 2003. From the vendor's perspective: Exploring the value proposition in information technology outsourcing. MIS Quart. 27(3) 331-364.
36. Long, S. 1997. Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
37. Malhotra, A., S. Gosain, O. A. El Sawy. 2005. Absorptive capacity configurations in supply chains: Gearing for partner-enabled market knowledge creation. MIS Quart. 29(1) 145-187.
38. Malone, T. W., K. Crowston. 1994. The interdisciplinary study of coordination. ACM Comput. Surveys 26(1) 87-119.
39. Mayer, K. J., R. M. Salomon. 2006. Capabilities, contractual hazards, and governance: Integrating resource-based and transaction cost perspectives. Acad. Management j. 49(5) 942-959.
40. Messerschmitt, D. G., C. Szyperski. 2003. Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
41. Mitchell, V. L., R. W. Zmud. 1999. The effects of coupling IT and work process strategies in redesign projects. Organ. Sci. 10(4) 424-438.
42. Newman, K. L. 2000. Organizational transformation during institutional upheaval. Acad. Management Rev. 25(3) 602-619.
43. Nunnally, J. C. 1978. Psychometric Theory. McGraw-Hill, New York.
44. Orton, J. D., K. E. Weick. 1990. Loosely coupled systems: A reconceptualization. Acad. Management Rev. 15(2) 203-223.
45. Parnas, D. L. 1972. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules. Comm. ACM 15(12) 1053-1058.
46. Porter, M. E. 2001. Strategy and the Internet. Harvard Bus. Rev. 79(3) 62-78.
47. Prahalad, C. K., M. S. Krishnan. 2004. The building blocks of global competitiveness. Optimize 35(September).
48. Quinn, J. B. 1999. Strategic outsourcing: Leveraging knowledge capabilities. Sloan Management Rev. 40(4) 9-22.
49. Quinn, J. B. 2005. The intelligent enterprise a new paradigm. Acad. Management Executive 19(4) 109-121.
50. Ross, J. W., P. Weill, D. Robertson. 2006. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA.
51. Sambamurthy, V., A. Bharadwaj, V. Grover. 2003. Shaping agility through digital options: Reconceptualizing the role of information technology in contemporary firms. MIS Quart. 27(2) 237-263.
52. Sanchez, R., J. T. Mahoney. 1996. Modularity, flexibility, and knowledge management in product and organization design. Strategic Management J. 17 63-76.
53. Schilling, M. A. 2000. Toward a general modular systems theory and its application to interfirm product modularity. Acad. Management Rev. 25(2) 312-334.
54. Schilling, M. A., H. K. Steensma. 2001. The use of modular organizational forms: An industrv-level analysis. Acad. Management J. 44(6) 1149-1168.
55. Simester, D., M. Knez. 2002. Direct and indirect bargaining costs and the scope of the firm. J. Bus. 75(2) 283-304.
56. Simon, H. A. 1962. The architecture of complexity. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 106 467-482.
57. Stump, R. L., J. B. Heide. 1996. Controlling supplier opportunism in industrial relationships. J. Marketing Res. 33(4) 431-441.
58. Subramani, M. R., N. Venkatraman. 2003. Safeguarding investments in asymmetric interorganizational relationships: Theory and evidence. Acad. Management J. 46(1) 46-62.
59. Train, K. E. 2003. Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
60. Uhlenbruck, K., K. E. Meyer, M. A. Hitt. 2003. Organizational transformation in transition economies: Resource-based and organizational learning perspectives. J. Management Stud. 40(2) 257-282.
61. Venkatesan, R. 1992. Strategic sourcing: To make or not to make. Haruard Bus. Rev. 70(6) 98-107.
62. Wighton, D. 2005. Companies question benefits of outsourcing. Financial Times (April 19) 6.
63. Williamson, O. E. 1979. Transaction-cost economics: Governance of contractual relations. J. Law Econom. 22(2) 233-261.
64. Williamson, O. E. 1985. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. The Free Press, New York.
65. Wipro. 2007. Enterprise management. http://www.wipro.com/webpages/ itservices/industries/utilities/enterprise-mgmt.htm.
66. Zander, U., B. Kogut. 1995. Knowledge and the speed of the transfer and imitation of organizational capabilities: An empirical test. Organ. Sci. 6(1) 76-92.