Sundeep Sahay

Global IT Outsourcing (eBook, PDF)

Software Development across Borders

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries. It is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the UK, Japan and Korea with Indian software houses. In these case studies, which have typically been compiled over a 3-4 year timespan, the authors analyse the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). These challenges range from the conflicts that managers face when dealing with distance, to the tensions of transferring knowledge across time and space, to issues in trying to establish universal standards in a context of constant change, and the problems of identity that developers and clients experience in having to deal with different organizations and countries. Throughout the book, the authors draw on their extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs more effectively.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511058806
• Artikelnr.: 38206010

Autorenporträt

Sundeep Sahay is a Professor in Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway. After completing his doctoral studies at Florida International University, he has held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Cambridge, the University of Salford and at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introducing the phenomenon of global software work
2. Globalization and global software work
3. Globtel's GSA programme In India
4. The Globtel-Witech relationship: a 'standardization' perspective
5. Global software work: an identity perspective
6. The Globtel-MCI relationship: the dialectics of space and place
7. Managing the knowledge transfer process: the case of Sierra and its Indian subsidiary
8. The case of Gowing and Eron GSA: power and control
9. Cross-cultural communication challenges: GSAs between Japanese and Indian firms
10. Reflections and synthesis on theoretical insights
11. Managerial implications
Index.