The Institutional Economics of Software Sourcing

软件采购的制度经济学

• 批准号: 9422976
• 负责人: Cynthia Beath
• 金额: $ 9.5万
• 依托单位: Southern Methodist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-06-15 至 1998-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9422976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Institutional; Economics; Software; Sourcing

This project extends transaction cost theory to decisions regarding inter-firm research and development services in the particular context of software development. The research is supported under the Joint NSF/Private Sector Initiative and involves a collaborative effort between twenty-one private-sector organizations and the principal investigators. The objective of the study is to test important questions benchmarking sourcing procedures for software development. This project's model of sourcing decisions and outcomes is richer than those usually found in research on vertical integration. No other study has examined both the sourcing decision and supplier performance separately, although there are strong theoretical reasons why this design is advisable. The design enables conceptual distinctions to be made between important questions. Also, the data are not subject to the usual problems of hindsight measurement bias or to difficulties in attributing causality. The model for this research is grounded in problems of software sourcing that the cooperating organizations currently face. The resources dedicated to choosing and managing new developers have been rapidly increasing in recent years. The results of this study should lead to new approaches to solving sourcing problems more generally in a world of inter-firm reliance and cooperation. Thus, although the projects is based in theory, it has strong operational component. This project will help both the cooperating organizations and academic researchers learn how to initiate and carry out this kind of research partnership.

该项目将交易成本理论扩展到软件开发特定背景下有关企业间研发服务的决策。这项研究得到了国家科学基金会/私营部门联合倡议的支持，涉及21个私营部门组织和主要研究人员之间的合作努力。这项研究的目的是测试重要的问题，对软件开发的采购程序进行基准测试。这个项目的采购决策和结果模型比通常在垂直整合研究中发现的模型更丰富。没有其他研究分别考察采购决策和供应商绩效，尽管有强有力的理论理由说明为什么这种设计是可取的。这种设计能够在重要问题之间做出概念上的区分。此外，数据不受后见之明测量偏差或归因于因果关系困难的常见问题的影响。本研究的模型基于合作组织当前面临的软件采购问题。近年来，用于选择和管理新开发人员的资源迅速增加。这项研究的结果应导致在公司间依赖和合作的世界中更普遍地解决采购问题的新方法。因此，尽管该项目是基于理论的，但它具有很强的操作性。该项目将帮助合作组织和学术研究人员学习如何发起和开展这种研究伙伴关系。