Global IT Outsourcing Software Development across Borders [Hardcover]

This book offers key insights into how organizations manage software development across international boundaries.This book offers key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries. Based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the UK, Japan and Korea with Indian software houses, the authors analyze the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). Throughout the book, the authors draw on their extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs more effectively.This book offers key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries. Based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the UK, Japan and Korea with Indian software houses, the authors analyze the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). Throughout the book, the authors draw on their extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs more effectively.Offering key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries, this book is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the U.K., Japan and Korea with Indian software companies. The authors analyze the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). They draw on extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs more effectively.List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introducing the phenomenon of global software work; 2. Globalization and global software work; 3. Globtel's GSA programme In India; 4. The Globtel-Witech relationship: a 'standardization' perspective; 5. Global software work: an identity perspective; 6. The Globtel“!