Collaboration, Learning and Innovation Across Outsourced Services Value Networks: Software Services Outsourcing in China

✍ Scribed by Pamela Abbott, Yingqin Zheng, Rong Du (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 66
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book collects and reports on the results of a study conducted on the Chinese Software and Services Outsourcing (SSO) industry, focusing on one of its main players as a key case study. Two sets of research findings are presented: first, the knowledge management and communication processes inherent within a highly collaborative software development project between the case study company and one of its long-term UK clients are explored and distilled into specific practices; second, at the organizational level, the strategies used by the company to build and exploit capabilities and to dynamically configure resources to promote specific value positions along its outsourced services value networks are identified and discussed. The significance of these findings for similar China-based global high-tech firms and the value of this organizational form in moving closer to the goals of the 2020 enterprise vision are both discussed, along with the implications of the findings for EU/UK businesses operating in similar digital domains.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Collaboration as a Process of Creolization at VanceInfo....Pages 21-33
VanceInfo’s Reconfigurative Strategy....Pages 35-44
Innovation in a Collaborative Project....Pages 45-54
Discussion....Pages 55-58
Conclusion: The 2020 Enterprise....Pages 59-60
Back Matter....Pages 61-61

✦ Subjects

IT in Business; Emerging Markets/Globalization; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Innovation/Technology Management; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management