دانلود ترجمه مقاله تاثیرات سرمایه اجتماعی بر تصمیمات برون‌ سپاری فناوری اطلاعات - مجله الزویر

Information technology (IT) outsourcing is the practice of turning over part or all of an organization's IT functions to external service providers (Grover, Cheon, & Teng, 1996). Outsourcing became very popular in the 1990s, encouraged by success such as Eastman Kodak's externalization of information systems. IT outsourcing is often presented as an attractive business proposition to improve productivity, reduce costs and increase competitiveness. Previous research on IT outsourcing adopted economic perspectives, with the methods used including the transaction cost approach and risk analysis (Aubert, Rivard, & Patry, 1996; Lacity, Willcocks, & Feeny, 1996). More recently, the focus of-study has shifted to IT outsourcing relationships (e.g., Kern & Willcocks, 2000; Lee & Kim, 1999). However, it remains the least explored among IT issues, and more research is necessary to better understand the subject empirically. As outsourcing behavior is pluralistic and dynamic by nature, outsourcing relationships form the context in which interactions or transactions take place (Kumar, van Dissel, & Bielli, 1998). This perspective is especially crucial as the embeddedness concept, which emphasizes the contextualization of economic activities in on-going patterns of social relations (Granovetter, 1985), has gained popularity and is now well recognized. The concept of embeddedness consists of arguments against the primacy of both individual attributes and aggregate outcomes; it is also antithetical to self-interest being the sole guide for action (Granovetter, 1985). In contrast, most prior research has treated each sourcing decision as an independent event and thereby disregarded any prior relationships that might affect the sourcing decision at hand.