Dynamics of Governance and Control in Inter-Organizational Software Development - Softcover

Huber, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3954046768 ISBN 13: 9783954046768

Verlag: Cuvillier Verlag, 2014

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In recent years, development of information systems (IS) has rapidly changed towards increasing division of labor between firms. Two trends are emerging. First, client companies increasingly outsource software development to external service providers. Second, the formerly oligopolistic enterprise application software industry has started to disintegrate into focal partnership networks – so called platform ecosystems. Despite the increasing prominence of IS outsourcing and platform ecosystems, many of these inter-organizational partnerships fail to achieve expected benefits. Ineffective governance and control frequently plays a pivotal role in producing these failures. While designing effective governance and control mechanisms is always challenging, inter-organizational software development projects are often business-critical and exhibit additional dynamics and uncertainty. As a consequence governance and control have to be adapted over time. The three research projects included in this book provide a better understanding of how and why governance and control can be effectively adapted over time. The implications for successful management of inter-organizational software development projects are highly relevant for theory and practice.

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Thomas L. Huber is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Bern, Switzerland. His current research focuses on the dynamics of governance and control in inter-organizational software development projects. His recent work has been published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, in conference proceedings such as the International Conference on Information Systems, European Conference on Information Systems, Americas Conference on Information, and EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium. Thomas has also written two book chapters - one on IS outsourcing and one on theory-guided modeling and empiricism in IS research.

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• Verlag: Cuvillier Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3954046768
• ISBN 13: 9783954046768
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
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