Day 1: Monday March 22 2010

18:00: Registration and Reception

19:00-19:15: Welcome and agenda

19:15-20:00: Keynote speaker, Leslie Willcocks

 

Day 2: Tuesday March 23 2010 (14:00–19:30, followed by Workshop dinner)

Session 1: Sourcing Models and Performance (1)

Session Chair: Leslie Willcocks

14:00 – 14:35 GSW10-01: “Strategic Orientation in the Globalization of Software Firms”

Authors: Jason Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Erran Carmel, Debora Dunkle

Discussant: Paul Alpar

14:35 – 15:10 GSW10-27: “Adaptability in IT Sourcing: The Impact of Switching Costs”

Author: Dwayne Whitten

Discussant: Jorg Augustin

 

15:10 – 15:15 Short break

15:15  - 15:50 GSW10-08: “Information Technology Outsourcing and the Bottom Line”

Authors: Paul Alpar, Patrick Noll

Discussant: Kenneth Kraemer  

15:50 – 16:15 GSW10-34: “Results of the Pan-European Survey of Outsourcing Trends: The Client Perspective”

Authors: Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky

 

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break

 

Session 2: Sourcing Models and Performance  (2)

Session Chair: Sirkka Jarvenpaa

16:30 – 17:05 GSW10-10: “Unlocking Path Dependencies in Business Process Outsourcing Decision Making”

Authors: Joerg Augustin, Armin Heinzl, Jens Dibbern

Discussant:   Tom Philip

17:05  - 17:40 GSW10-29: “Motives and Status Quo of the Internationalization of IT-Shared Service Centers- Global Sourcing, Global Delivery, Global Efficiency”

Authors: Till Julian Möwes, Veit Schulz

Discussant: Erik Beulen  

17:40 - 18:15 GSW10-05: “Parallel Transitions in IT Outsourcing: Making it Happen”

Authors: Erik Beulen, Vinay Tiwari

Discussant: Albert Plugge

18:15 – 18:20 Short break

 

Session 3: Corporate Social Responsibility  in Sourcing

Session Chair: Jonathan Wareham

18:20 - 18:55 GSW10-06: “How Green is my Outsourcer? Towards a Stages of Growth Model for Environmental Responsibility in Global IT Outsourcing”

Authors: Ron Babin, Brian Nicholson

Discussant: Joachim Timlon

18:55 - 19:30 GSW10-14: “Strategic Sourcing Decisions and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Logic of Appropriateness Applied to the Brazilian Market”

Authors: Joachim Timlon, Janine Saponara

Discussant: Giovanni Vaia

 

19:30  Workshop dinner in the Prato Borni restaurant

 

 

Day 3: Wednesday March 24 2010  (14:30-19:30 followed by the Workshop Dinner)

Session 3: Building Sourcing Capabilities

Session chair: Jens Dibbern  

14:30 – 15:05 GSW10-02: “Strategic Sourcing of R & D: The Determinants of Success”

Authors: Jacques W. Brook, Albert Plugge

Discussant: Sirkka Jarvenpaa

15:05 – 15:40 GSW10-33: “Living Labs: Arbiters of Mid-and-Ground-Level Innovation”

Authors: Esteve Almirall, Jonathan Wareham

Discussant: Jos van Hillegersberg  

 

15:40  - 15:45 Short break

15:45 – 16:20 GSW10-24: “Evolving Relationship Structures in Multi-Sourcing Arrangements: The Case of Mission Critical Outsourcing”

Authors: Ilja Heitlager, Remko Helms, Sjaak Brinkkemper

Discussant: Floor De Jong

16:20 – 16:55 GSW10-31: “The Roles of the Contracts and Informal Relations in the Governance of the IT Outsourcing Process”

Authors: Giovanni Vaia, Aurelio Tomasetti, Francesco Zirpoli

Discussant:  Dwayne Whitten

 

16:55 - 17:10 Coffee break

17:10 – 17:45 GSW10-09: “Management of Globally Distributed Software Development Projects in Multiple-Vendor Constellations”

Authors: Katharina Vogt, Roman Beck, Robert Wayne Gregory

Discussant: Ilja Heitlager  

 

Session 4: Governance and management issues in Sourcing

Session chair: Brian Nicholson

17:45 – 18:20 GSW10-17: “Portfolios of Control: Research Outsourcing Discourses and Their Potential for Discipline”

Authors: Eleni Lioliou, Leslie Willcocks

Discussant: Jonathan Wareham

18:20 – 18:55 GSW10-19: “Governance of Offshore IT Outsourcing at Shell Global Functions IT-BAM: Development and Application of a Governance Framework to Improve Outsourcing Relationships”

Authors: Floor de Jong, Jos van Hillegersberg, Pascal van Eck, Feiko van der Kolk

Discussant: Eleni Lioliou

18:55 – 19:30 GSW10-23: “Software-as-a-Service Vendors: Are they Ready to Successfully Deliver?”

Authors: Tsipi Heart, Noa Shamir Tsur, Nava Pliskin

Discussant: Veit Schulz

 

19:30 Workshop dinner in the Dining Room of the Hotel Schweizerhof  

 

 

Day 4: Thursday March 25 2010 (14:30-19:30)

Session 5: Knowledge and Collaboration in Sourcing

Session chair:  Ron Babin

14:30 – 15:05 GSW10-28: “Facilitating Productive Collaboration in Offshore Software Development Work: Project Management as Sociomaterial “Senseshaping””

Authors: Seamas Kelly, Camilla Noonan, Simeon Vidolov

Discussant: Brian Nicholson  

15:05 – 15:30 GSW10-36: “How organizational context and boundary spanning processes shape active faultlines in  offshore engineering services teams”

Author: Sirkka Jarvenpaa  

 

15:40  - 15:45 Short break

15:45 – 16:20 GSW10-12: “Knowledge Integration in Global R&D Networks”

Authors: Roos Erkelens, Bart van den Hooff, Paul Vlaar, Marleen Huysman

Discussant: Erik Wende

16:20 – 16:55 GSW10-04: “Exploring the Media Mix During IT-Offshore Transition Phase- An Opportunity for a Better Knowledge Transfer”

Authors: Erik Wende, Gerhard Schwabe, Tom Philip

Discussant: Camilla Noonan

16:55 - 17:10 Coffee break

 

Session 6: Emerging Topics in Sourcing

Session chair: Jos van Hillegesrberg

17:10 – 17:45 GSW10-32: “Delineating the Limits in Public Sector Outsourcing: The ASPIRE Case”

Authors: Antonio Cordella, Leslie Willcocks

Discussant: Roos Erkelens  

17:50 – 18:25 GSW10-25: “Open-Sourcing: Company Approach to Harness Community Capabilities”

Authors: Maha Shaikh, Tony Cornford

Discussant: Tsipi Heart

18:25 – 19:00 GSW10-38: “A European Research Agenda on the Evolution of Global Sourcing Relationships”

Authors: Gerhard F. Knolmayer

  

19:00 – 19:30   Closing Words, Leslie Willcocks