A Business Ecosystem Perspective on Open Platforms and Outsourcing Relationships: A Software Industry Case Study

Michael D. Frutiger (), Sandra A. Slaughter () and Sridhar Narasimhan ()
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Michael D. Frutiger: Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sandra A. Slaughter: Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sridhar Narasimhan: Georgia Institute of Technology

A chapter in Information Systems Outsourcing, 2014, pp 501-515 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper we introduce the business ecosystem concept as a lens to explore how the introduction of an open platform may affect outsourcing relationships in a software industry. The case of a recent military initiative to introduce the F.A.C.E.TM (Future Airborne Capability Environment) open platform as a mechanism to control avionics software costs by increasing the re-use of software is used to illustrate changes to the software outsourcing ecosystem. As a consequence this work then lays the foundation for a detailed investigation of the predicted implications both in general and for the specific context studied, as well as illustrating the value of an ecosystem perspective for evaluating the impact of an open platform on outsourcing relationships in other industries.

Keywords: IT outsourcing; Business ecosystem; Open platforms; Open standards; Software industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43820-6_20

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