Using software metrics to allocate testing resources
Journal of Management Information Systems
An economic analysis of strategic information technology investments
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on the strategic use of information systems
Structure and perceived effectiveness of software development subunits: a task contingency analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Collaboration technology, modeling, and end-user computing for the 1990s
Inside a software design team: knowledge acquisition, sharing, and integration
Communications of the ACM
Determinants of information technology outsourcing: a cross-sectional analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information assets, technology, and organization
Management Science
Employment outsourcing in information systems
Communications of the ACM
The role of trust in outsourced IS development projects
Communications of the ACM
Using Scenarios to Understand the Frontiers of IS
Information Systems Frontiers
Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism
Organization Science
IT outsourcing evolution---: past, present, and future
Communications of the ACM - Wireless networking security
Portfolios of Control in Outsourced Software Development Projects
Information Systems Research
Contracts in Offshore Software Development: An Empirical Analysis
Management Science
Managing cross-cultural issues in global software outsourcing
Communications of the ACM - Human-computer etiquette
Grasping the complexity of IS development projects
Communications of the ACM - New architectures for financial services
IT Outsourcing Strategies: Universalistic, Contingency, and Configurational Explanations of Success
Information Systems Research
IT Outsourcing Success: A Psychological Contract Perspective
Information Systems Research
The puzzle of Japanese software
Communications of the ACM - Designing for the mobile device
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and its organizational impact
Software processes and project performance
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and its organizational impact
Toward an assessment of software development risk
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Manager's Guide to Making Decisions About Information Systems
Manager's Guide to Making Decisions About Information Systems
The Matrix of Control: Combining Process and Structure Approaches to Managing Software Development
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Unified Model of Requirements Elicitation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Expertise Integration and Creativity in Information Systems Development
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Just Right Outsourcing: Understanding and Managing Risk
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Contingency Approach to Software Project Coordination
Journal of Management Information Systems
Investigating Determinants of Software Developers' Intentions to Follow Methodologies
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information and Software Technology
Special Section: Competitive Strategy, Economics, and Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information systems development project performance in the 21st century
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
The strategic value of IT insourcing: An IT-enabled business process perspective
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Information technology outsourcing through a configurational lens
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Contracting Efficiency and New Firm Survival in Markets Enabled by Information Technology
Information Systems Research
Managers' Judgments of Performance in IT Services Outsourcing
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Influence of Industry Characteristics on Information Technology Outsourcing
Journal of Management Information Systems
Mitigating Vendor Silence in Offshore Outsourcing: An Empirical Investigation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Preliminary experimentation about interactive spiral knowledge mining based on conjoint analysis
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
Software industry in Okinawa: the critical success factors for the Japanese Bangalore
Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking
Journal of Database Management
IS-Supported Managerial Control for China's Research Community: An Agency Theory Perspective
Journal of Global Information Management
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Knowledge based transactions and decision framing in Information Technology Outsourcing
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Cost escalation in information technology outsourcing: A moderated mediation study
Decision Support Systems
The Impacts of Network Governance on the Performance of ITO: A Study of Taiwanese Firms
Journal of Global Information Management
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As outsourcing evolves into a competitive necessity, managers must increasingly contend with the decision about which software development projects to outsource. Although a variety of theories have been invoked to study the initial outsourcing decision, much of this work has relied in isolation on one theoretical perspective. Therefore, the relative importance ascribed by managers to the factors from these theories is poorly understood. The majority of this work also masks interesting insights into outsourcing decisions by focusing on the information technology (IT) function rather than individual projects as the unit of analysis, where many of these decisions occur. In contrast, prior research at the project level has focused on predicting development performance in the postoutsourcing-decision phases of projects. The objective of this study is to examine the relative importance that IT managers ascribe to various factors from three complementary theories-transaction cost economics, agency theory, and knowledge-based theory-as they simultaneously consider them in their project outsourcing decisions. A secondary objective is to assess the cross-cultural robustness (United States versus Japan in this study) of such models in predicting project-level IT outsourcing decisions. We develop and test a multitheoretic model using data on 1,008 project-level decisions collected from 33 Japanese and 55 U.S. managers. Overall, our results provide novel insights into the relative importance that managers ascribe to the factors from these three theories, their complementarities and occasional contradictions, and offer new insights into the differences among U.S. and Japanese IT managers. Implications for theory and practice are also discussed.