Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)
Software Complexity and Organization of Firms’ Offshoring Activities
List of Authors: Arto Ojala, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Ning Su, Kalle Lyytinen
Editors: Susanne Stigberg, Joackim Karlsen, Harald Holone, Cathrine Linnes
Conference name: Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems
Publication year: 2017
Book title *: Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 8th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2017, Halden, Norway, August 6-8, 2017, Proceedings
Title of series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume number: 294
Start page: 15
End page: 27
Number of pages: 13
ISBN: 978-3-319-64694-7
eISBN: 978-3-319-64695-4
ISSN: 1865-1348
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64695-4_2
URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-64695-4_2
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/28928248
How does software complexity shape software providers' offshoring tasks, and how
do such firms organize their offshoring activity? These questions are important, since the
global software development market is growing rapidly, offering new opportunities for
software managers and entrepreneurs to distribute their activities geographically. Based on
a multi-site case study of 12 software firms, we study connections between software
complexity and the offshoring strategies selected. Our findings suggest that software firms
select a variety of organizational structures for their offshoring activity, and that the selection
is shaped by the complexity of the software in question.
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