This book provides in-depth insights into the practices that lead to success in global sourcing. Written by internationally acclaimed academics, it covers best practices on IT outsourcing, offshoring, business process outsourcing and netsourcing. This book is a must read for any practitioner, academic or student concerned with global sourcing.

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Dr. LESLIE P. WILLCOCKS is Professor in the area of technology work and globalization at London School of Economics and Political Science, Associate Fellow at Templeton College, Oxford, and holds visiting chairs at Melbourne and Erasmus universities. His doctorate is from Cambridge University and he has been for the last 16 years Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology. He is co-author of 25 books, and has published over 160 refereed papers in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly, MISQ Executive, Journal of Management Studies, Communications of the ACM, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. In February 2001, he won the PriceWaterhouseCoopers/Michael Corbett Associates World Outsourcing Achievement Award for his contribution to this field. He is a regular keynote speaker at international practitioner and academic conferences, has extensive consulting experience, and is regularly retained as adviser by major corporations and government institutions.

Dr. MARY C. LACITY is a Professor of Information Systems and International Business Fellow at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She was the recipient of the 2008 Gateway to Innovation Award sponsored by the IT Coalition and the Society for Information Management and the 2000 World Outsourcing Achievement Award sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael Corbett and Associates. Shehas written eight books and 50 scholarly papers, and she is US Editor of the Journal of Information Technology.

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Customer and Supplier Learning on IT and Business Service Practices Managing 54 Processes in the Sourcing Life Cycle Retaining Nine Core Capabilities In-House Assessing Twelve Supplier Capabilities The Winner's Curse in IT Outsourcing: The Case of Esso Outsourcing Human Resources: The Case of BAE Systems Outsourcing Indirect Procurement: The Case of BAE Systems Managing Knowledge When Outsourcing: Cases in Financial Services Offshoring of IT Work: 20 Practices How Corporations E-Source Application Service Provision and Risk Mitigation The Future of Global Sourcing: Twelve Emerging Trends Workbook Section: Readings and Assignments