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Software Sourcing Modes and Software Sourcing Gestalts

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Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices (Global Sourcing 2015)

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Enterprise systems offer the potential of integrating corporate functions as well as enabling business process improvements. These systems can be deployed in three different software sourcing modes: in-house, on-premises, and on-demand. This study examines whether software sourcing gestalts, i.e., combinations of IT resources and organisational resources involved, are able to absorb changes in the firm’s environment. If this is the case, the prevailing gestalts of IT and organisational resources parsimoniously “fit” the chosen software sourcing mode in response to changing forces in the firm’s environment.

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    Marko Nöhren, Armin Heinzl & Thomas Kude

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Nöhren, M., Heinzl, A., Kude, T. (2015). Software Sourcing Modes and Software Sourcing Gestalts. In: Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., Willcocks, L. (eds) Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices. Global Sourcing 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26739-5_1

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