


The Impacts of Global IS Sourcing on Engineering, Technology and Innovation Management
22-
Keystone, CO, USA
Following the success of the past Global Sourcing Workshops in 2007 and 2008, we
are pleased to release a Call for Papers for the third Global Sourcing Workshop which
will be held March 22-
Global sourcing of IT and business services has become one of the most critical economic
transformations of our time. By 2009 revenues from the offshore outsourcing of information
technologies (IT) will exceed $US30 billion, and over the next five years the compound
annual growth rate in this industry is expected to be about 20 per cent (Willcocks
and Lacity 2006). These phenomena well deserve in-
The workshop will focus on the topic of Global IS Sourcing with a specific interest
in social, managerial and knowledge-
We invite research articles and focus on practice papers that investigate social,
managerial and knowledge-
Critical issues in engineering and innovation management tasked with engaging a global supplier network and workforce
Knowledge management systems, codification processes and their impact on outsourcing performance
Emerging concepts such as Open Sourcing and their consideration from social, managerial and knowledge perspectives
People retention issues and implications for success of global IT sourcing arrangements
Retained management capabilities from a social and knowledge perspective
Social capital in global sourcing arrangements
(Multi-
Emerging sourcing markets such as China, South America, Africa and Eastern Europe.
We are interested in including papers that are both conceptual and empirically-
After presenting their work at the third Workshop on Global Sourcing the authors may choose to submit their papers to the special issue in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management on “The Impacts of Global Information Systems Sourcing on Engineering, Technology and Innovation Management” edited by Willcocks, Rottman, Kotlarsky and Oshri (deadline for submission August 31st 2009). However, the workshop and the special issue are not connected and participation in the workshop is not required for consideration for the special issue.
Please note that a small conference venue has been reserved with guaranteed attendance restricted to those having papers accepted for presentation.
Important Dates:
September 15th 2008 – Deadline to submit extended abstracts to the Workshop on Global Sourcing
September 29th 2008 -
December 17th 2008 – Deadline to submit full papers to the Workshop on Global Sourcing
March 1st 2009 – Deadline to submit revised manuscripts to the Workshop on Global Sourcing Workshop
March 22-
Abstracts should be between 600-
All submissions should be sent in MS Word format to: Alison.Solman@wbs.ac.uk with
'Global Sourcing Workshop 2009' as the subject of the e-
For guidelines on preparation of full papers please follow Guidelines for Authors.
Workshop Organizers:
Leslie P. Willcocks (http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willcock/)
Joseph Rottman (http://www.umsl.edu/~rottmanj/vita.html)
Julia Kotlarsky (http://www.juliakotlarsky.com)
Ilan Oshri (http://www.ilanoshri.com/)
Download Call for Papers in PDF