An Exploratory Empirical Study on the Partnership and Performance of IT-enabled Business Process Outsourcing : A Case of CTI(Computer Telephony Integration) based Customer Service Center Outsourcing

정보기술 기반 비즈니스 프로세스 아웃소싱 파트너십과 성과에 관한 탐색 : CTI(Computer Telephony Integration) 기반 고객서비스센터 아웃소싱 사례를 중심으로

This study explores a model of partnership to the success of outsourcing CTI(computer telephony integration) based customer service centers of a telecommunication service company. The motivation of the study is to extend the research on IT outsourcing to IT-enabled BPO of customer service centers as a specific IT outsourcing practice. Previous research on IT outsourcing partnership and success is reviewed for developing an a research model of IT-enabled BPO. This model is proposed based on the previous partnership success models in information systems research. The results of the study confirm major factors related to successful IT-enabled BPO in previous research. Especially, the specificity of a contract and strategic collaboration in partnership are found to be influential on the success of IT-enabled BPO.