Should this software component be developed inside or outside our firm? - A design science perspective on the sourcing of application systems

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 91 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 115-132

  Kramer, Tommi ^a   Heinzl, Armin ^a   Spohrer, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

decision making; design science; IT artifact; outsourcing; software development; software engineering

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

APPLICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN SCIENCE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; IS ARCHITECTURE; IT ARTIFACT; LITTLE RESEARCH; OUTSOURCE; OUTSOURCING DECISIONS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY; TECHNICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; UNIT OF ANALYSIS; WORKGROUPS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 80054778696     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24815-3_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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