The role of trust in outsourced IS development projects
Communications of the ACM
Effects of culture on control mechanisms in offshore outsourced IT projects
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
ICGSE '06 Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Global Software Engineering
Outsourcing Decisions and Models - Some Practical Considerations for Large Organizations
ICGSE '06 Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Global Software Engineering
Managing risk in offshore systems development
Communications of the ACM
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce
On Coordination Mechanisms in Global Software Development
ICGSE '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Software Engineering
Awareness in the Wild: Why Communication Breakdowns Occur
ICGSE '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Software Engineering
A risk profile of offshore-outsourced development projects
Communications of the ACM - Organic user interfaces
ITNG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
Demotivators of software process improvement: an empirical investigation
Software Process: Improvement and Practice
Information and Software Technology
Software quality management improvement through mentoring: an exploratory study from GSD projects
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems
Critical success factors for offshore software development outsourcing vendors: an empirical study
PROFES'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
A systematic literature review of flexible e-procurement marketplace
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: A tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
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Context: Offshore software development outsourcing is a modern business strategy for developing high quality software at low cost. Objective: The objective of this research paper is to identify and analyse factors that are important in terms of the competitiveness of vendor organisations in attracting outsourcing projects. Method: We performed a systematic literature review (SLR) by applying our customised search strings which were derived from our research questions. We performed all the SLR steps, such as the protocol development, initial selection, final selection, quality assessment, data extraction and data synthesis. Results: We have identified factors such as cost-saving, skilled human resource, appropriate infrastructure, quality of product and services, efficient outsourcing relationships management, and an organisation's track record of successful projects which are generally considered important by the outsourcing clients. Our results indicate that appropriate infrastructure, cost-saving, and skilled human resource are common in three continents, namely Asia, North America and Europe. We identified appropriate infrastructure, cost-saving, and quality of products and services as being common in three types of organisations (small, medium and large). We have also identified four factors-appropriate infrastructure, cost-saving, quality of products and services, and skilled human resource as being common in the two decades (1990-1999 and 2000-mid 2008). Conclusions: Cost-saving should not be considered as the driving factor in the selection process of software development outsourcing vendors. Vendors should rather address other factors in order to compete in the OSDO business, such as skilled human resource, appropriate infrastructure and quality of products and services.