Risks, Relationships and Success Factors in IT Outsourcing

IT Outsourcing: Definition, Importance, Trends and Research.- Research Background.- Research Process.- Research Results.- Contributions, Limitations, and Further Research.

Georg Hodosi, PhD., is an affiliate researcher at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. and a Ph.Lic. in Computer and Systems Sciences from Stockholm University, an M.Sc. in Engineering from Lund University, and an M.Sc. in Education in Technology and Mathematics from Stockholm Institute of Education. He has more than 25 years of professional experience in companies like Ericsson in Sweden and Mannesmann in Germany in different areas such as strategic sourcing, project management, quality assurance, line management and software development. His research interest is in IT outsourcing and he has about 15 years' experience within outsourcing and insourcing.

Lazar Rusu, PhD., is Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden. He is involved in teaching and research in IT management and has a professional experience of over 30 years both industrial and academic in the information systems area. His research interest is mainly in IT governance, business-IT alignment and IT outsourcing. The results of his research have been published in proceedings of top international conferences like ECIS, HICSS, AMCIS, PACIS, ISD and journals like Computers in Human Behavior, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Information Systems Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications, among others. He is an author of a number of book chapters and co-editor of the following books published by Springer: Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations - Theory and Practice, 2017 and Information Systems, E-Learning, and Knowledge Management Research, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 278, 2012.