Start Date
14-12-2012 12:00 AM
Description
Although creolization has been shown to contribute to project success in IT-enabled global services sourcing, the components of the construct have received little theoretical scrutiny and the construct has not been instrumented by a set of systematized measures. This study attempts to provide a better understanding of creolization and advance a systematic approach for measurement. For this purpose, we reconceptualize creolization in this paper by developing the definition of the creolization construct and present an integrated, staged approach that enables researchers to build a set of better contextualized, more complete and more valid measures. We empirically carry out the approach through field studies over four years, involving more than twenty companies in three different regions in China. The results of analysis of the collected data are presented briefly. Our aim is to create an instrument that helps measure creolization rigorously and therefore facilitates practitioners to implement creolization.
Recommended Citation
Du, Rong; Ai, Shizhong; and Straub, Detmar W., "Measuring Creolization In IT-Enabled Global Services Sourcing" (2012). ICIS 2012 Proceedings. 62.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2012/proceedings/ResearchInProgress/62
Measuring Creolization In IT-Enabled Global Services Sourcing
Although creolization has been shown to contribute to project success in IT-enabled global services sourcing, the components of the construct have received little theoretical scrutiny and the construct has not been instrumented by a set of systematized measures. This study attempts to provide a better understanding of creolization and advance a systematic approach for measurement. For this purpose, we reconceptualize creolization in this paper by developing the definition of the creolization construct and present an integrated, staged approach that enables researchers to build a set of better contextualized, more complete and more valid measures. We empirically carry out the approach through field studies over four years, involving more than twenty companies in three different regions in China. The results of analysis of the collected data are presented briefly. Our aim is to create an instrument that helps measure creolization rigorously and therefore facilitates practitioners to implement creolization.