Abstract
The production of goods and services is becoming more and more international, or even global, as large transnational corporations and networks of small and medium sized companies distribute their activities across the world in their quest for cheap labour or other economic resources. The production of software is no exception. In this paper, we present a newly started research project on offshore programming, that is the practice of sending software development “offshore,” to India or other low wage areas. The project focuses on the organisation of offshore programming and, particularly, on the role of advanced communication technologies such as high-speed data links and video conferencing. The project explores a number of in-depth case studies of Danish and Indian companies engaged in offshore programming.
Zusammenfassung
Die Herstellung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen ist immer mehr international geworden da transnationale Unternehmen und Netzwerke von kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen ihrer Aktivitäten weltweit verteilen, um Arbeitskräfte und andere Faktore so kostengünstig wie möglich zu kaufen. Die Produktion von Software ist keine Ausnahme. Wir berichten in diesem Beitrag über ein neues Projekt, das die Offshore-Programmierung untersucht, d. h. das Vergeben von Programmierungsaufträgen an Indien oder an andere Niedriglohngebieten. Der Focus des Projekts ist die organisatorische Realisierung der Offshore-Programmierung und ihre informations- und kommunikationstechnologische Basis, z. B. durch multimediale Anwendungen der Informatik. Die Untersuchung erfaßt einige Fallstudien von dänischen und indischen Unternehmen, die in der Offshore-Programmierung engagiert sind.
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Nørbjerg, J., Havn, E., Bansler, J.P. (1997). Global Production: The Case of Offshore Programming. In: Krallmann, H. (eds) Wirtschaftsinformatik ’97. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57737-6_17
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