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Suggested Readings on Outsourcing

John Cross, “IT Outsourcing: British Petroleum’s Competitive Approach,” Harvard Business Review (May-June, 1995): 94-102.

 

Jeffrey H. Dyer, “How Chrysler Created an American Keiretsu.” Harvard Business Review, July-August, 1996, pp. 42-56.

 

Maurice F. Greaver, Strategic Outsourcing : A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives. New York: AMACOM, 1999.

 

Charles R. Greer, Stuart A. Youngblood, and David A. Gray, “Human Resource Management Outsourcing: The Make or Buy Decision,” Academy of Management Executive (August, 1999): 85-96.

 

Richard L. Huber, “How Continental Bank Outsourced Its ‘Crown Jewels,’” Harvard Business Review (January-February, 1993): 121-129.

 

Robert Klepper and Wendell. Jones, Outsourcing Information Technology, Systems, and Services. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1997.

 

Mary C. Lacity and Rudy Hirschheim, Information Systems Outsourcing: Myths, Metaphors and Realities. New York: Wiley, 1993.

 

Jordan D. Lewis, The Connected Corporation: How Leading Companies Win Through Customer-Supplier Alliances. New York: Free Press, 1995.

 

F. Warren McFarlan and Richard L. Nolan, “How to Manage an IT Outsourcing Alliance,” Sloan Management Review (Winter, 1995): 9-23.

 

James Brian Quinn, “Strategic Outsourcing: Leveraging Knowledge Capabilities,” Sloan Management Review (Summer, 1999): 9-21.

 

James Brian Quinn and Frederick G. Hilmer, “Strategic Outsourcing,” Sloan Management Review (Summer, 1994): 43-55.

 

Kathy M. Ripin and Leonard R. Sayles, Insider Strategies for Outsourcing Information Systems: Building Productive Partnerships, Avoiding Seductive Traps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 

Carol Saunders, Maray Gebelt, and Qing Hu, “Achieving Success in Information Systems Outsourcing.” California Management Review 39 (Winter, 1997): 63-79. 

 

Michael Useem and Joseph Harder, “Leading Laterally in Company Outsourcing,” Sloan Management Review (Vol. 41, No. 2, Winter, 2000): 25-36.

 

 

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