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An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Governance-Peripheral Knowledge Fit on the Performance of IT Project Outsourcing: Focusing on the Perceptual Gap between Client and Vendor

IT 프로젝트 아웃소싱에서 거버넌스-주변지식의 조화가 프로젝트 성과에 미치는 영향에 대한 실증 분석: 고객사-공급사 간 인지차를 중심으로

  • Seonyoung Shim (Department of Business Administration, Sungshin University)
  • 심선영 (성신여자대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2017.03.02
  • Accepted : 2017.03.28
  • Published : 2017.03.31
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Abstract

We investigated perceptual similarity and the difference between client and vendor in information technology (IT) outsourcing projects. Specifically, we focused on each player's perception of how the fit of governance and peripheral knowledge affects the performance of IT project outsourcing. For 107 IT projects, we surveyed both client and vendor in the same IT projects and compared the responses of each side. Through a dyadic analysis, we first found that both client and vendor put more weight on the vendor's peripheral knowledge than that of the client as a positive influencer of project performance. However, regarding the governance style of an IT project, client and vendor showed completely different perspectives. The client believed that the vendor's peripheral knowledge positively contributes to the performance of IT project under the governance of outcome control. However, the vendor showed that its peripheral knowledge creates synergy effects under the governance of process control. Our interpretation of the perceptual similarity and difference between client and vendor delivers managerial implications for businesses that process IT projects.

본 연구에서는 IT 프로젝트 아웃소싱에서 고객사와 공급사간에 존재하는 인지적 일치점과 차이점에 대하여 고찰하였다. 특히, 고객사 또는 공급사의 주변지식과 거버넌스 방식의 조화가 프로젝트 성과에 미치는 영향에 대한 양측의 관점을 비교하였다. 107개의 IT 프로젝트를 대상으로 각 프로젝트에 참여한 고객사와 공급사 양측을 모두 설문조사하여 비교 분석한 결과, 첫째 양측의 주변지식 중 고객사보다는 공급사의 주변지식이 프로젝트 성과에 대한 긍정적 영향요인이라는 의견이 고객사와 공급사 양측에서 동일하게 제시되었다. 하지만, 이러한 주변지식에 결합되는 통제 방식에 있어서는 양측이 다른 견해를 보였다. 고객사는 과정통제 하에서 공급사 주변지식은 프로젝트 성과에 긍정적 영향을 미친다고 보았지만 공급사는 자신들의 주변지식이 결과통제와 결합될 때 프로젝트 성과에 기여하는 시너지 효과가 발생한다고 보았다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 양측의 인지적 일치점과 차이점에 대한 해석을 제공하며 이는 기업들이 IT 프로젝트를 수행함에 있어 관리적 함의를 제공할 것이다.

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이 논문은 2016년도 성신여자대학교 학술연구조성비 지원에 의하여 연구되었음.

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