Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations

In recent years, information technology (IT) outsourcing continues to receive favourable acceptance to maximize organization’s benefits. There is strong concern on the level of success of IT outsourcing endeavours and past researches indicated inconclusive findings on the influencing factors. This...

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Main Authors: Hussin, Husnayati, Ismail, Zuraini, Suhaimi, Mohd. Adam, Abdul Karim, Noor Shahriza
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Published: 2006
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author Hussin, Husnayati
Ismail, Zuraini
Suhaimi, Mohd. Adam
Abdul Karim, Noor Shahriza
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description In recent years, information technology (IT) outsourcing continues to receive favourable acceptance to maximize organization’s benefits. There is strong concern on the level of success of IT outsourcing endeavours and past researches indicated inconclusive findings on the influencing factors. This research investigates the relationships between partnership quality, service quality and IT outsourcing arrangements and IT outsourcing success. It was tested using a sample from IT managers in 143 Malaysian organizations. The findings of the survey provide evidence that partnership quality and service quality are important predictors for IT outsourcing success, while IT outsourcing arrangement, particularly the degree of integration and the length of the contract, are found to have insignificant influence on IT outsourcing success.
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spelling my.utm.eprints-55442017-09-07T04:10:46Z http://eprints.utm.my/5544/ Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations Hussin, Husnayati Ismail, Zuraini Suhaimi, Mohd. Adam Abdul Karim, Noor Shahriza T Technology (General) In recent years, information technology (IT) outsourcing continues to receive favourable acceptance to maximize organization’s benefits. There is strong concern on the level of success of IT outsourcing endeavours and past researches indicated inconclusive findings on the influencing factors. This research investigates the relationships between partnership quality, service quality and IT outsourcing arrangements and IT outsourcing success. It was tested using a sample from IT managers in 143 Malaysian organizations. The findings of the survey provide evidence that partnership quality and service quality are important predictors for IT outsourcing success, while IT outsourcing arrangement, particularly the degree of integration and the length of the contract, are found to have insignificant influence on IT outsourcing success. 2006 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Hussin, Husnayati and Ismail, Zuraini and Suhaimi, Mohd. Adam and Abdul Karim, Noor Shahriza (2006) Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations. In: Australasian Conference on Information Systems (17th : 2006 : Adelaide, Australia), 6-8 Dec 2006, Adelaide. http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=acis2006
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
Hussin, Husnayati
Ismail, Zuraini
Suhaimi, Mohd. Adam
Abdul Karim, Noor Shahriza
Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations
title Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations
title_full Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations
title_fullStr Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations
title_full_unstemmed Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations
title_short Examining factors influencing IT outsourcing success in Malaysian organizations
title_sort examining factors influencing it outsourcing success in malaysian organizations
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