IT and IS Outsourcing Research in International and Chinese Academia: A Comparative Literature Review

: Bo Yang, Tingting Lin

: Gabriel Ogunmokun, Rony Gabbay, Janelle Rose

: Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development

: 2012

: Managing, Marketing and Financing Organizations in an Era of Economic Uncertainty

: 5

: 512

: 523

: 978-0-9752272-4-4

In the recent years, IT/IS outsourcing is attracting increasing research attention in theinternational academia. Along with China’s rising position as a destination country of IT/IS outsourcing, the related research interest is also growing in the Chinese academia. To obtain an overview on the progress of relevant research in both international and Chinese research communities, we performed a literature review on 144 papers selected from EBSCO, AIS, and CSSCI. The bibliometric method is applied for a comparative analysis between English and Chinese papers on different aspects. For both international and Chinese IT/IS outsourcing researchers, the results would provide a summary of prior research, as well as implications forthe future.