Overview
- Illustrates through case studies ways to achieve collaborative innovation between Western clients and foreign outsourcing service providers
- Provides descriptive, in-depth case studies on actual services outsourcing practices at a major Chinese software and services outsourcing provider
- Develops frameworks and provides guidelines to Western clients on strategic considerations when outsourcing to Chinese sourcing providers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces (BRIEFSDIGIT)
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About the authors
Pamela Abbott is a lecturer in Information Systems at Brunel University, London. She obtained her PhD at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, in research done on nearshore models of offshore software outsourcing. Her research interests include the suitability of locations for software and services outsourcing, strategies for software and services export in developing countries, the role that distance plays in managing offshore working arrangements and the relationship between context and the development of client-supplier relationships.
Yingqin Zheng is a Lecturer at the School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London. She obtained a PhD in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. Her research interests lie with the implications of information technologies in organizational and social transformation. Her recent research investigates distributed collaboration, organizational learning, social innovation, collective action, and social inclusion.
Dr Rong Du is a professor at the School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, China. In the past, she has worked as a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, US, the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK, and the Quinn School of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests include knowledge management and cross-cultural management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collaboration, Learning and Innovation Across Outsourced Services Value Networks
Book Subtitle: Software Services Outsourcing in China
Authors: Pamela Abbott, Yingqin Zheng, Rong Du
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14421-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14420-7Published: 02 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14421-4Published: 20 January 2015
Series ISSN: 2193-5890
Series E-ISSN: 2193-5904
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 61
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT in Business, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Innovation/Technology Management, Operations Management