14 - 17  March 2011

 

Courchevel 1850, France

 

Following the success of the past Global Sourcing Workshops, we are pleased to release this Call for Papers for the Fifth Global Sourcing Workshop which will be held March 14-17, 2011 in Courchevel 1850, France.

 

The workshop will focus on Global Sourcing with a specific interest in practices that improve firm’s performance and those that affect communities and societies. This workshop aims to bring together viewpoints from various disciplines, including IB, Strategy, OM, OB and IS on global sourcing of IT, Business and Knowledge Processes and Innovation.

 

We invite research articles, works in progress and ‘focus on practice’ papers that investigate topics relating to global outsourcing and offshoring. In particular, the workshop will endeavour to present the views of managers from both client and vendor perspectives. Some of the specific themes that are of interest in this workshop are:

 

- Sourcing models (e.g. offshoring, offshore-outsourcing, near-shoring, cloud computing and SaaS)

- Sourcing decision making

- Sourcing settings (multi-sourcing, bundle services, etc.)

- Supplier capabilities

- Client capabilities  

- Outsourcing life cycle

- Captive centres

- Emerging topics and concepts in sourcing

 

We are interested in papers that are both conceptual and empirically-based.

 

Please note that a small conference venue has been reserved with guaranteed attendance restricted to those having papers accepted for presentation. Participants need to book early to secure  reserved accommodation at the conference location or other rooms nearby.

 

Selected papers will be invited to submit a revised version for a publication in either Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Strategic Information Systems or Strategic Outsourcing journal.

 

 

Important Dates:

 

October 15th 2010 – Deadline to submit extended abstracts to the Workshop on Global Sourcing

 

November 1st  2010 - Notification of accepted extended abstracts

 

Registration deadline: December 1st 2010 (Registration fees will be 275 EURO per person which include a reception and 2 dinners)

 

January 14th 2011 – Deadline to submit full papers to the Workshop on Global Sourcing

 

March 1st 2011 – Reviews sent to authors

 

March 14-17 2011 – Workshop on Global Sourcing, Courchevel 1850, France

 

Extended abstracts should be between 600-800 words.

 

All submissions should be sent in MS Word format to: globalsourcing2011@gmail.com with 'Abstract submission GSW 2011' as the subject of the e-mail.

 

For guidelines on preparation of full papers please follow  Guidelines for Authors.

 

Important Links

 

Courchevel 1850 ski resort: www.courchevel.com

 

Our Representative at the Tourism Office for enquiries about accommodations is Ms. Michele Herard. Her email: mherard@courchevel.com

 

 

Sponsorship: The workshop is partly sponsored by Accenture.

 

Download Call for Papers in PDF.