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Critical Success Factors

Critical Success Factors
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Author(s): Hans Solli-Sæther (Norwegian School of Management, Norway)and Petter Gottschalk (Norwegian School of Management, Norway)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 21
Source title: Managing IT Outsourcing Performance
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Hans Solli-Sæther (Norwegian School of Management, Norway)and Petter Gottschalk (Norwegian School of Management, Norway)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-796-6.ch003

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Abstract

We have identified a total of eleven theories that help explain why IT outsourcing is occurring worldwide. These theories were presented in the previous Chapter 2. Based on these theories, we develop eleven critical success factors in IT outsourcing, one for each theory. These factors are presented in the first section of this chapter. We developed the following research question: How do practitioners rank critical success factors based on outsourcing theories? To study this research question, we developed a survey instrument and conducted a survey among business organizations. Results from this survey and discussion of the findings are presented. In the second section of this chapter, we conceptualize the outsourcing of IT services as an electronic business activity, where the vendor electronically provides IT services to the client. The idea is that the purchasing of IT services is a business-to-business (B2B) relationship, which leads to outsourcing implications in terms of services that the vendor has to provide to its customers. Thus, we will in the second section look at critical success factors in electronic business infrastructure as an example of issues that need to be addressed.

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