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Projects: Managing Escalation in Outsourcing

In: The New IT Outsourcing Landscape

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  • Dorottya Kovasznai
  • Leslie Willcocks

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As we saw in Chapter 1, over the past decades outsourcing has gained significant importance as an arrangement for managing various organizational activities. Similarly, business process outsourcing and offshore outsourcing are gaining momentum worldwide. Even so, research shows that outsourcing has a mixed track record: in most cases organizations get fewer benefits than they expected and more worryingly, a number of companies encounter severe problems as a consequence of outsourcing (Lacity and Willcocks, 2001, 2009). Furthermore, in observed practice organizations often get trapped in outsourcing projects that are clearly doomed to fail. In these cases decision makers allocate more and more resources to troubled ventures instead of admitting to the fundamental problems and facing the fact that the projects should be re-directed or abandoned if even more painful future losses are to be prevented.

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  • Dorottya Kovasznai & Leslie Willcocks, 2012. "Projects: Managing Escalation in Outsourcing," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The New IT Outsourcing Landscape, chapter 4, pages 165-205, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01229-6_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137012296_5
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    1. Malgorzata Pankowska, 2019. "Information Technology Outsourcing Chain: Literature Review and Implications for Development of Distributed Coordination," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-28, March.

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