{"title":"Information Systems Outsourcing by Large American Industrial Firms: Choices and Impacts","authors":"J. Collins, Robert Millen","doi":"10.4018/IRMJ.1995010101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Outsourcing is one of the most widely discussed topics in information systems today. Yet, in spite of a number of articles describing the experiences of individual firms, little is known about outsourcing in general. To address this, a survey was mailed to the CIO or equivalent of the 500 largest industrial firms in the United States. The results from the 110 responses received indicate the extent and effects of outsourcing among users of such services. The survey also collected data about the outsourcing plans of nonusers. The survey provided information about the planning and implementation issues encountered, benefits achieved, and impact on performance. This study is a benchmark of current outsourcing practice. In addition, this study tests some commonly accepted assumptions about the reasons for outsourcing, and the effects of outsourcing on the firm","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"5-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"80","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Information Resources Management Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IRMJ.1995010101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Outsourcing is one of the most widely discussed topics in information systems today. Yet, in spite of a number of articles describing the experiences of individual firms, little is known about outsourcing in general. To address this, a survey was mailed to the CIO or equivalent of the 500 largest industrial firms in the United States. The results from the 110 responses received indicate the extent and effects of outsourcing among users of such services. The survey also collected data about the outsourcing plans of nonusers. The survey provided information about the planning and implementation issues encountered, benefits achieved, and impact on performance. This study is a benchmark of current outsourcing practice. In addition, this study tests some commonly accepted assumptions about the reasons for outsourcing, and the effects of outsourcing on the firm
期刊介绍：
Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: •Application of IT to operation •Artificial intelligence and expert systems technologies and issues •Business process management and modeling •Data warehousing and mining •Database management technologies and issues •Decision support and group decision support systems •Distance learning technologies and issues •Distributed software development •E-collaboration •Electronic commerce technologies and issues •Electronic government •Emerging technologies management
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