Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between offshore outsourcing rankings and country level social index data from international sources. A review of the literature notes the scarcity of industry data and objective evidence for informing country selection for sourcing activities. A multivariate analysis was carried out to identify possible relationships between commercial outsourcing attractiveness data and country level socio-economic data. Two components from country attractiveness indexes are shown to be correlated with data from three international data sets: child mortality rate, life expectancy and unemployment. The analysis indicates that higher commercial value scores are associated with lower national performance in socio-economic data. Conversely, aggregate top rankings tend to be achieved by countries with exemplary socio-economic data. We propose approaches for extending country attractiveness metrics to explicitly incorporate social impact and sustainability factors.
Recommended Citation
Higgins, Allen and Saadatmandi, Babak, "Country Selection and Impact IT Sourcing: Relationships Between Business Factors and Social Inequality" (2016). ACIS 2016 Proceedings. 17.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2016/17