Evolution of finished computer systems the dilemma of enhancement
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
Global software: developing applications for the international market
Global software: developing applications for the international market
Programming for the world: a guide to internationalization
Programming for the world: a guide to internationalization
Technology as traitor: emergent SAP infrastructure in a global organization
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Hunting for the Treasure at the End of theRainbow: Standardizing corporate IT Infrastructure
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Computer Systems Development: History Organization and Implementation
Computer Systems Development: History Organization and Implementation
IEEE Software
Global software development: where are the benefits?
Communications of the ACM - A Blind Person's Interaction with Technology
Modified agile practices for outsourced software projects
Communications of the ACM - The Status of the P versus NP Problem
Benefits of global software development: the known and unknown
ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
CoRED: browser-based Collaborative Real-time Editor for Java web applications
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Global Software Alliances (GSAs) are a relatively new organizational form that firms are increasingly adopting to meet their software development needs. These relationships are fraught with complexity given the temporal, spatial and cultural separation of the firm contracting out the software development work and the firm doing the development. In this paper, we focus on the challenge of standardization that contributes significantly to the ongoing complexity. The nature of the standardization problem is elaborated, and the tensions that are associated in their implementation are analyzed. A key implication arising from the paper is the need to broaden the technical focus on standards that have existed in prior research, and to give increased emphasis on management practices. Latour's idea of "circulating reference" is introduced to analyze the question of "what is lost, what is gained, and what remains invariant in the process of translation?"