Microsourcing -- using information technology to create unexpected work relationships and entrepreneurial opportunities: work in progress

Authors:
Lorie Obal
Affiliations:
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The growing phenomenon of outsourcing, both onshore and offshore, has gained a great deal of attention and enabled the formation of new, flexible business models. It is of particular interest to portable enterprises such as programming and other producers of intellectual property. Economic changes as well as shifts in traditional work models and the employee/employer relationships have created new career pressures for knowledge workers as well as potential opportunities to use these new work models for either legitimate or illegitimate means. This work in progress proposes to open a new line of inquiry into the potential for employees to sub-contract their own work.