Outsourcing is the most recent management tool to emerge in response to demands for more efficient ways to address organizational competitiveness. Organizations, recognizing that they cannot be world class in every activity and function involved in pr...
Outsourcing is the most recent management tool to emerge in response to demands for more efficient ways to address organizational competitiveness. Organizations, recognizing that they cannot be world class in every activity and function involved in producing their products and services, are moving toward business strategies based on "core competencies". Researchers in information systems propose several reasons why firms outsource their IS, including reducing costs, generating cash, focusing on core competencies, and gaining access to technical expense. But many studies were examined into environmental factors of outsourcing success - market circumstance, uncertainty, relationship of outside vendors. This study focused on internal factors of outsourcing success - relationship between activities or functions of outsourcing and motivation, job involvement, job satisfaction of employees. I examine the relationship between outsourced job activities and job involvement of employees in information system department, based on survey from 25 firms.