Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Sourcing Strategy of Information Systems and Inter-firm Alliances

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The project treated the theoretical and empirical studies on sourcing strategy of information systems (IS) and inter-firm alliances. In general, there are two typical patterns of IS outsourcing : (1) conventional outsourcing -a contract with a vendor and (2) quasi-outsourcing -setting up their own IS subsidiary. In this project, the current state of IS outsourcing was analyzed, and a characteristic feature based on the difference of patterns of IS outsourcing was revealed statistically. Then, we examined various factors that influences the selection of patterns of IS outsourcing, and extracted the variables that have a significant influence on the adoption of quasi-outsourcing in order to find the relationship between the IS outsourcing and its determinants. Furthermore, the effectiveness of combined framework of transaction cost economics (TCE) and the resource-based view (RBV) was examined based on our original questionnaire survey of Japanese firms.