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Global Sourcing Workshop 2015

Global Sourcing 2015: Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices pp 100–123Cite as

Information Technology Outsourcing and the Bottom Line

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 236))

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Outsourcing of information technology has substantially increased in the last two decades but doubts about the business success of such arrangements persist. This paper examines whether a difference in business performance can be determined between firms that outsourced information technology in a given period and those that did not. We compare four performance key figures before and after outsourcing. The data cover deals executed in Germany from 2000 to 2006 and key figures from 1997 to 2008. The results show that a significant difference can be observed for only two out of four key measures. However, while the cost savings of firms that outsourced information technology are not impressive compared to other firms on average, they often show a superior financial performance indicating that they seem to enjoy strategic benefits from the move.

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Alpar, P., Noll, P. (2015). Information Technology Outsourcing and the Bottom Line. In: Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., Willcocks, L. (eds) Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices. Global Sourcing 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26739-5_6

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