A two-level investigation of information systems outsourcing
Communications of the ACM
An ERP-client benefit-oriented maintenance taxonomy
Journal of Systems and Software
Alignment Between Business and IS Strategies: A Study of Prospectors, Analyzers, and Defenders
Information Systems Research
A transaction cost model of IT outsourcing
Information and Management
Ideal patterns of strategic alignment and business performance
Information and Management
A review of the IT outsourcing literature: Insights for practice
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
From IT deployment capabilities to competitive advantage: An exploratory study in China
Information Systems Frontiers
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IT outsourcing research has often been at the transaction level, focusing on the role of the characteristics of the IT activities as the antecedents of outsourcing decisions. The present study extends past research efforts examining the relationships between organizational level variables--in particular the business strategy--and the decision to outsource. Results show that prospectors and analyzers are more aggressive in their use of outsourcing for IT operations. However, no differences between the behaviour of the different strategic groups were found for maintenance activities, suggesting that these activities are too far from the core of the organization to be influenced by strategic profile.