Citation:
Chakrabarty, S. 2006. Making sense of the sourcing and shoring maze: Various outsourcing and offshoring alternatives. In H. S. Kehal, & V. P. Singh (Eds.), Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A socio economic perspective, 1st ed.: 18-53. Hershey: IGI.
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-875-8.ch002
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Abstract:
Many terminologies have grown out of the outsourcing and offshoring bandwagon. While the corporate world continues to experience these phenomena, the academic world continues to research the same. An attempt has been made to give an overview of the various alternatives in sourcing maze. We first discuss the basic sourcing strategies (insourcing and outsourcing) and the shoring strategies (onshoring and offshoring). We then move deep and wide into the maze and unravel the multiple alternatives that businesses exercise in order to get the best deal for their information system (IS) needs. Approximately 50 terminologies that are related to this growing maze have been discussed. The literature was scanned for various sourcing alternatives and terminologies. The purpose of this chapter is to compile and elucidate the various facets of domestic and global sourcing of IS needs. The reader will gain holistic perspective of a phenomenon that is continuously changing the way business is carried out globally.
Keywords:
Application Service Provision,
Application Service Providing,
ASP,
Backsourcing,
Benefit based relationships,
Body Shop Outsourcing,
Business benefit contracting,
Business Process Outsourcing,
BPO, Business Strategy,
Complex sourcing,
Cooperative Sourcing,
Co-sourcing,
Contracting-out,
Corporate Strategy,
Creative Contracting,
Cross-functional Teams,
Distributed Consulting,
Domestic Insourcing,
Domestic Outsourcing,
Domestic Sourcing,
Dual sourcing,
Dyadic outsourcing arrangement,
Equity holdings,
Facilities Management,
Facilities Sharing,
Flexible Sourcing,
General outsourcing,
Global Delivery,
Global IT Management,
Global Insourcing,
Global Outsourcing,
Global Sourcing,
Information Industry,
Information Systems,
Information Technology,
Insource,
Insourcing,
IT Strategy,
Joint Ventures,
Managed Offshore Facilities,
Managerial Control,
Modular Sourcing,
Multi-National Corporation,
Multinational Corporations,
Multi-sourcing,
Multiple supplier sourcing,
Multi-vendor outsourcing,
Net Sourcing,
Offshore,
Offshoring,
Offshore Insourcing,
Offshore Outsourcing,
On Demand, Onshore,
Onshoring,
Onshore Insourcing,
Onshore Outsourcing,
Outsource,
Outsourcing,
Out tasking,
Partner Firms,
Partnerships,
Project Management Outsourcing,
Real Time delivery,
Relationship Building,
Right Sourcing,
Selective Sourcing,
Smart Sourcing,
oftware as a service,
Software Industry,
Spin offs,
Strategic alliances,
Strategic Planning,
Strategic sourcing,
Tactical Outsourcing,
Total Insourcing,
Total Outsourcing,
Traditional Outsourcing,
Trading Partners,
Transformational Outsourcing,
Transitional Outsourcing,
Virtual Corporation,
Virtual Organizations,
Virtual Teams,
Value-added outsourcing
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