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Case Study Research

Case Study Research

Hans Solli-Sæther, Petter Gottschalk
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781605667966|ISBN10: 160566796X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924218|EISBN13: 9781605667973
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-796-6.ch010
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Hans Solli-Sæther and Petter Gottschalk. "Case Study Research." Managing IT Outsourcing Performance, IGI Global, 2010, pp.187-212. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-796-6.ch010

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H. Solli-Sæther & P. Gottschalk (2010). Case Study Research. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-796-6.ch010

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Hans Solli-Sæther and Petter Gottschalk. "Case Study Research." In Managing IT Outsourcing Performance. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-796-6.ch010

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Abstract

In order to understand the inherent complexities and the underlying constructs of managing IT outsourcing relationships and the performance of these relationships, empirical research was conducted. The empirical research in terms of an exploratory case study had the following guiding research questions: 1) How do client and vendor organizations manage their IT outsourcing relationship? 2) How do different stakeholders influence, or get influenced by, the IT outsourcing relationship? In this research context, the unit of analysis was both the relationship (question 1) and the individual stakeholders (question 2). As our goal was to explore managerial and individual issues, rather than analytical generalization, no research propositions or hypotheses were developed in advance of the empirical study. First in this chapter, we present the methodology applied in the case study process. Next, we present three internationally based IT outsourcing relationships that were studied (Solli-Sæther, 2006). In the following section, data collected are put into cross-case issues of managing IT outsourcing relationships. Finally, we use the theoretical framework developed in Chapter 2 for evaluating different aspects of the cases studied.

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