Software Outsourcing Partnership Process – a Life Cycle?

Authors

Marianne Kinnula, University of Oulu, FinlandFollow
Veikko Seppänen, University of Oulu, FinlandFollow
Juhani Warsta, Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, FinlandFollow
Sari Vilminko, University of Oulu, FinlandFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Van de Ven and Poole contend that all the specific theories of organizational change and development used in management research come back to four basic theories: life cycle theory, evolution theory, dialectic theory, and teleology, and that most of the organizational theories are some kind of combination of these four. In outsourcing research most of the researchers implicitly assume that an outsourcing process follows the life cycle theory. In this study we analysed a software outsourcing partnership model and found out that the model indeed followed life cycle theory.

Recommended Citation

Kinnula, Marianne; Seppänen, Veikko; Warsta, Juhani; and Vilminko, Sari, "Software Outsourcing Partnership Process – a Life Cycle?" (2006). ICEB 2006 Proceedings (Tampere, Finland). 62.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/iceb2006/62