Tight budgets and shortage in resources motivate many companies to relocate work to established sites in emerging nations. While there are many assumed benebits of offshoring, many studies have identibied that these benebits are neither clear‐cut nor can their realization be taken for granted. Specibically, the following risks have been reported:
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- The effect of offshore decisions can be critically evaluated from multiple perspectives:
- Offshoring is expected to provide increased probitability and competitiveness of companies from an organizational perspective;
- Offshoring decisions can lead to decreased national competitiveness in the long term due to local reductions in operation and giving away the competitive edge to lower waged colleagues.
Project Objectives
- Understand the benebits of offshoring software development for Sweden: what, why, when and how to offshore to be competitive;
- Formalize the process of offshoring decision‐making on the basis of successful and unsuccessful collaboration experiences;
- Provide a set of best practices for building benebicial offshoring collaborations and maximizing the probitability and competitiveness of the studied companies.
Scientific Approaches
The project is organized in the form of empirical studies. We focus on a continuous systematic collection of empirical observations from the
partner companies through a number of industrial case studies and analysis of empirical literature. This involves a quantitative and qualitative analysis of cost, resource, time, scope and quality management. Finally, offshoring decisions is formalized through analyzing different environmental factors.
partner companies through a number of industrial case studies and analysis of empirical literature. This involves a quantitative and qualitative analysis of cost, resource, time, scope and quality management. Finally, offshoring decisions is formalized through analyzing different environmental factors.