Global Outsourcing Discourse Exploring Modes of IT Governance /

• Main Authors: Lioliou, Eleni (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Willcocks, Leslie P. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Technology, Work and Globalization
• Subjects: Corporate governance.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Discourse analysis.; Corporate Governance.; IT in Business.; Discourse Analysis.

The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing relationships in order to test the ap...

Table of Contents:

• Exploring Outsourcing, Governance and Discourse
• The Study of Information Technology Outsourcing
• Inside Global Offshore Outsourcing in Insurance
• Inside Global Outsourcing in Banking and Finance
• Inside Domestic Outsourcing with Multiple Suppliers
• The Transaction Costs Economics Discourse
• A Foucauldian Discourse Perspective
• Conclusion: The Global Outsourcing Discourse.