Firm strategic profile and IT outsourcing

Benoit A. Aubert (), Guillaume Beaurivage (), Anne-Marie Croteau () and Suzanne Rivard ()
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Benoit A. Aubert: 2020 University
Guillaume Beaurivage: SAP Canada
Anne-Marie Croteau: Concordia University
Suzanne Rivard: HEC Montréal and CIRANO

Information Systems Frontiers, 2008, vol. 10, issue 2, No 2, 129-143

Abstract: Abstract IT outsourcing research has often been at the transaction level, focusing on the role of the characteristics of the IT activities as the antecedents of outsourcing decisions. The present study extends past research efforts examining the relationships between organizational level variables—in particular the business strategy—and the decision to outsource. Results show that prospectors and analyzers are more aggressive in their use of outsourcing for IT operations. However, no differences between the behaviour of the different strategic groups were found for maintenance activities, suggesting that these activities are too far from the core of the organization to be influenced by strategic profile.

Keywords: IT outsourcing; Strategic profile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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