• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.153-170
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• 2017

As the digital economy goes global, firms are trying to find suppliers that can address their managerial goals and strategies. The alternatives are not confined to domestic firms. Firms have been trying to connect to foreign partners worldwide. Although offshore outsourcing grants firms various benefits, they present big cultural challenges. However, there is little research on the impact of cultural or country factors on outsourcing. The goal of this paper is to synthesize the outsourcing success literature and develop propositions for outsourcing success in the context of offshore outsourcing. This paper proposes that cultural effects should be included in evaluating the success of offshore outsourcing. Knowledge sharing and the scope of outsourcing are adopted in the base outsourcing success model from previous literature. In the extended model partnership quality is included as a mediator and organizational capability and outsourcing relationship type are also included as moderator. Finally, the integrated framework of offshore outsourcing success includes cultural factors as moderators of the relationships between outsourcing success antecedents and the success of offshore outsourcing. Reasoning for propositions, managerial implications, and future research directions are discussed.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.65-86
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• 2018

본 연구는 중소기업의 관계구조가 구매자-판매자 관계를 기반으로 하는 아웃소싱에 있음에 주목하고, 중소기업의 활동에서 신뢰경영과 동반성장이 가진 역할을 검정하는데 목적이 있다. 신뢰경영과 동반성장이 기업의 여유자원, 협력관계 그리고 구매자-공급자 관계를 매개로 아웃소싱의 유형을 결정하면 그 성과를 얻는다는 맥락을 가지고 있다. 이러한 맥락에 따라서 연구가설을 설정하고 연구모형을 구축한 다음, 구조방정식모형으로 실증분석을 하였다. 실증분석을 위해 전국의 206개 중소기업을 대상으로 설문조사에 얻은 자료를 이용하여 가설을 검정하였다. 그 결과, 신뢰경영과 동반성장이 아웃소싱 유형과 성과에 유의한 영향을 미치고 있으며, 그 과정에서 협력관계와 구매자-공급자관계의 매개효과가 있었다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.49-81
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• 2007

Research in the IS (Information Systems) outsourcing has focused on the importance of legal contracts and partnerships between vendors and clients. Without detailed legal contracts, there is no guarantee that an outsourcing vendor would not indulge in self-serving behavior. In addition, partnerships can supplement legal contracts in managing the relationship between clients and vendors legal contracts by itself cannot deal with all the complexity and ambiguity involved with IS outsourcing relationships. In this paper, we introduce a psychological contract (between client and vendor) as an important variable for IS outsourcing success. A psychological contract refers to individual's mental beliefs about his or her mutual obligations in a contractual relationship (Rousseau, 1995). A psychological contract emerges when one party believes that a promise of future returns has been made, a contribution has been given, and thus, an obligation has been created to provide future benefits (Rousseau, 1989). An employmentpsychological contract, which is a widespread concept in psychology, refers to employer and employee expectations of the employment relationship, i.e. mutual obligations, values, expectations and aspirations that operate over and above the formal contract of employment (Smithson and Lewis, 2003). Similar to the psychological contract between an employer and employee, IS outsourcing involves a contract and a set of mutual obligations between client and vendor (Ho et al., 2003). Given the lack of prior research on psychological contracts in the IS outsourcing context, we extend such studies and give insights through investigating the role of psychological contracts between client and vendor. Psychological contract theory offers highly relevant and sound theoretical lens for studying IS outsourcing management because of its six distinctive principles: (1) it focuses on mutual (rather than one-sided) obligations between contractual parties, (2) it's more comprehensive than the concept of legal contract, (3) it's an individual-level construct, (4) it changes over time, (5) it affects organizational behaviors, and (6) it's susceptible to organizational factors (Koh et al., 2004; Rousseau, 1996; Coyle-Shapiro, 2000). The aim of this paper is to put the concept, psychological contract commitment (PCC), under the spotlight, by finding out its mediating effects between legal contracts/partnerships and IS outsourcing success. Our interest is in the psychological contract commitment (PCC) or commitment to psychological contracts, which is the extent to which a partner consistently and deeply concerns with what the counter-party believes as obligations during the IS project. The basic premise for the hypothesized relationship between PCC and success is that for outsourcing success, client and vendor should continually commit to mutual obligations in which both parties believe, rather than to only explicit obligations. The psychological contract commitment playsa pivotal role in evaluating a counter-party because it reflects what one party really expects from the other. If one party consistently shows high commitment to psychological contracts, the other party would evaluate it positively. This will increase positive reciprocation efforts of the other party, thus leading to successful outsourcing outcomes (McNeeley and Meglino, 1994). We have used matched sample data for this research. We have collected three responses from each set of a client and a vendor firm: a project manager of the client firm, a project member from the vendor firm with whom the project manager cooperated, and an end-user of the client company who actually used the outsourced information systems. Special caution was given to the data collection process to avoid any bias in responses. We first sent three types of questionnaires (A, Band C) to each project manager of the client firm, asking him/her to answer the first type of questionnaires (A).

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2007

기업 간 관계를 관리하는 효과적인 거버넌스 구조(governance structure)는 기업 간 관계의 성공에 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 특히 기업 간 관계가 국경을 초월한 해외에서 이루어질 때, 기업 간의 문제를 조정하기 위한 효과적인 거버넌스 구조의 역할은 더욱 중요성을 갖게 되는 것이다. 실제 해외에서 비즈니스 프로세스를 소싱(Sourcing)하고 있는 업체와 서비스 제공 업체들은 해외 소싱 성공을 위한 효과적인 거버넌스 구조에 대해 매우 중요하게 인식하고 있다. 하지만 이에 대한 실증적인 연구는 부재한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 IT 집약적인 비즈니스 프로세스 소싱에 있어서 고객과 서비스 제공업체 사이의 지식이전이 BPO 성공에 중요한 역할을 한다고 보고, 이전되는 지식 유형에 적절하고 효과적인 거버넌스 구조에 대한 연구를 프랑스 회사들의 해외 소싱 사례를 통하여 수행하고자 한다.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1345-1365
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• 2018

본 연구는 정부와 전문기관간에 위임-대리인관계가 대리인문제를 발생시키고 연구관리전문기관의 효율성에 영향을 미칠 수 있다는 가정 하에, 법적위탁이 아닌 계약에 의한 위탁사업은 사업수탁에 대한 불확실성과 외부영향에 의한 대리인 비용 발생으로 법적 위탁사업 보다 효율성이 낮을 것이라는 가설을 검증하고 사업별 효율성에 미치는 영향요인들을 분석하고자 한다. 이를 위해 정부와 전문기관간의 세부사업별 사업위탁방식(더미변수)과 사업관리비 비율간의 관계를 분석하기 위해 사업방식(Top-down/bottom-up), 사업규모(예산, 과제수), 기관운영경비 편성비중, 기관의 수권예산대비 출연금 비율 등을 통제변수로 사용하였다. 분석결과에 따르면, 사업관리 효율성과 정부와의 사업위임방식(법적위임)간의 양의 상관성이 확인되었으며, 전문기관의 안정성과 독립성을 반영할 수 있는 법적지위 및 예산 구조 관점에서의 시사점이 도출되었다. 본 연구의 정책적 함의로서, 전문기관의 사업관리 효율성을 높이기 위해서는 법적인 안정성과 예산의 안정성이 확보되어야 하고 이를 통해, 위임자-대리인 문제에서 발생하는 도덕적 해이나, 역선택을 회피할 수도 있다는 점을 시사한다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회/대한산업공학회 2003년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.312-319
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• 2003

In late 90s, organizations recognized the information technology as an key enabler of the business strategic accomplishment which lead them heavy increment on IT investment. These organizations tried to hold the competitive advantage by focusing on their core competency. And these acts raise their interests on IT outsourcing. Recent trends of the organizations concern on evaluating the effectiveness of the previous IT investment and the reasonable selection on IT investment type. Also, the objective evaluation of the service level and continuous improvement are major concern of the outsourcer. Consequently, interests on Service Level Agreement (SLA), an immanence operating tool for managing the level of the information system service objectively and qualitatively, were raised among IT outsourcing service providers, outsourcers, and operating departments. Yet, only a few domestic conglomerates adopted the SLA, and exact usage of the SLA is currently unknown. Because of the importance of the SLA between a service provider and an outsourcer, the agreement is treated with high confidentiality. This raised the problems to both the private and public organizations, are considering the SLA, with absence of concrete guide line to internalize SLA management process. This study provides the organizational and environmental factors of the adopting and applying the Service Level Agreement (SLA) by conducting multiple case research. The sampled companies are currently implementing the SLA over 1 year of usage period. Factors were used to provide the operational contribution for implementing the SLA. The study also provides the effects on IT performance through the SLA. For this, in depth interview was conducted for each sampled company. As a result, if SLA between outsourcer and service provider can be used as an immanence operation tool and actively implemented, SLA will be an strategic tool for various decision making in IT management practice with long term relationship, better shared partnership, and continuous service improvement.

• 대한안전경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한안전경영과학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.281-294
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• 2009

Recently the information system introduction and the application which use the computer are increasing. The efficient operation of information system helps corporations to improve productivity, customer service and corporate competitive power. SaaS(Software as a Service), which is the developed type of outsourcing in the area of information technology, is to use standardized and packaged application by hosting from the outside of enterprise. SaaS is not developed yet as much as people's interest about that in the initial stage, but its related technology and service capacity are accumulated after repeated trial and error, and it's ready to activate the industry. In the area of information system, studies on the measurement of service quality were followed. But there is little study on service quality measurement in the field of SaaS(Software as a Service). The purpose of this study was to divides the SaaS with e-SERVQUAL and it consider the relationship with the perceived recognition and the usage intention. According to this, variables of traditional research were rejected because SaaS is not developed yet in Korea. But information had a strong effect on perceived recognition. Therefore, business related with in SaaS must have provided a correct information about various applications.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.95-103
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• 2009

Recently the information system introduction and the application which use the computer are increasing. The efficient operation of information system helps corporations to improve productivity, customer service and corporate competitive power. SaaS(Software as a Service), which is the developed type of outsourcing in the area of information technology, is to use standardized and packaged application by hosting from the outside of enterprise. SaaS is not developed yet as much as people's interest about that in the initial stage, but its related technology and service capacity are accumulated after repeated trial and error, and it's ready to activate the industry. In the area of information system, studies on the measurement of service quality were followed. But there is little study on service quality measurement in the field of SaaS(Software as a Service). The purpose of this study was to divides the SaaS with e-SERVQUAL and it consider the relationship with the perceived recognition and the usage intention. According to this, variables of traditional research were rejected because SaaS is not developed yet in Korea. But information had a strong effect on perceived recognition. Therefore, business related with in SaaS must have provided a correct information about various applications.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.85-110
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• 2015

Science and technology diplomacy has become an important policy agenda because of its diplomatic utility and enhancing of international science networks. However, different countries possess different objectives and governance of S&T diplomacy. In this context, this paper seeks to answer the following questions: what are the similarities and differences of S&T diplomacy in countries and what shapes these characteristics? To answer these questions, this paper conducts a comparative case study with five countries - Switzerland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States - whose S&T diplomatic programs are highly recognized and benchmarked by other countries. A useful typology is devised to conduct a systematic comparison. For S&T diplomatic objectives, this paper suggests five types by elaborating concepts from the previous literature: access diplomacy, promotion diplomacy, public aid diplomacy, functional diplomacy, and global leadership diplomacy. Also, in terms of a governance model for S&T diplomacy, three models - a sciencecentered model, a science-outsourcing model and a top-down coordinating model - are suggested based on leadership organization. This paper reveals the different characteristics of the selected countries in S&T diplomacy. While the selected countries pursue almost every type of S&T diplomatic objective, the US and the UK tend to conduct influence-based diplomacy more than other countries do. In addition, different countries each have unique governance models for S&T diplomacy. While more research is necessary for vigorously testing the causes of different objectives and their relationship with governance models, this paper suggests more general policy implications throughout. The strength of the country's S&T base is fundamentally important for the success of S&T diplomacy. However, domestic S&T assets need to be transferred to its diplomatic capabilities. In this sense, the appropriate governance that fits best with the country's S&T mission should be established, while S&T communities should increasingly play a leadership role in evolving global S&T networks.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제69권1호
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• pp.103-123
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• 2017

본 연구는 케어와 이민의 관련성에 관해 서구에서 이루어진 기존 연구들을 검토하고, 한국의 경험이 이러한 연구 성과들에 어떻게 기여할 수 있을지 탐색하려는 연구이다. 이 논문은 케어, 이민 그리고 그 둘의 결합, 이렇게 세 영역의 선행연구들을 검토했다. 케어는 다면적 개념이며 따라서 다양한 접근방법이 가능하다. 특히 케어를 사회적 재생산 노동으로 정의할 때, 케어는 개인과 가족 차원을 넘어 복지국가의 다양성과 진화의 경로를 분석하는 도구로 사용될 수 있다. 더 나아가 세계화와 국제이민의 맥락에서 케어 개념은 복지국가와 사회정책 연구에 있어 방법론적 국가주의를 극복할 수 있는 대안이 될 수 있다. 그간 축적된 증거들은 계급, 젠더 그리고 인종 등과 같은 사회적 실체들의 관계에 대해 초국가적 관점을 적용함으로써만 케어의 사회적 분배 역학을 제대로 파악할 수 있음을 보여준다. 또한 케어와 이민의 관계에 관한 기존의 연구들은 유럽 복지국가들에서 케어의 이민자화 경향의 광범위한 수렴을 발견했지만, 케어와 이민이 결합하는 구체적 방식은 제도적, 역사적 맥락을 반영하여 다양화될 수 있다는 것을 보여주었다. 케어-이민 결합 연구가 널리 알려진 복지국가(레짐)들의 사례들을 넘어서야 할 필요성이 바로 여기에 있다. 한국의 사례는 새로운 복지국가레짐 유형(소위 생산적/발전주의 복지국가)과 이민레짐 유형(동포이민과 결혼이민)을 기존의 케어-이민의 결합 연구에 포함시킴으로써, 이 연구의 지리적, 이론적 적용범위를 확대하는 데 기여를 할 수 있을 것이다.