Enterprise Software Sourcing Performance

The Impact Logic of On-Demand, On-Premises, and In-House Software on Dynamic Fit and Process-Level Performance Outcomes in Client Organizations

Marko Nöhren

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9783319239248
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319239262
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Computer Science

This book opens the "black box" of software sourcing by explaining how dynamic software alignment is established and how it impacts business performance outcomes. By investigating how software-sourcing modes are related to value generation in the post-implementation phase, it shows researchers and managers the impact logic of on-demand, on-premises, and in-house software on dynamic fit and process-level performance outcomes in a client organization. It describes dynamic IT alignment as the key to success in a fast-moving digital world with software-as-a-service on the rise and highlights the fact that today companies can choose between developing software in-house (make) or sourcing packaged systems in an on-premises (buy) or an on-demand (lease) mode. This book is the first to explicitly compare these sourcing arrangements with each other in terms of alignment and business performance.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundation
• Chapter 3: Preliminary Research Model
• Chapter 4: Research Design
• Chapter 5: Descriptive Findings
• Chapter 6: Single-Case Analysis
• Chapter 7: Cross-Case Synthesis
• Chapter 8: Summary and Discussion
• Chapter 9: Conclusion
• Appendix A: Literature Search Strategy
• Appendix B: Exemplified Items Related to the Dependent Constructs
• Appendix C: Properties of Qualitative Study Based on Dubé and Paré (2003)
• Appendix D: High-Level Interview Guideline
• Appendix E: List of Exemplified Evidence Based on Dibbern et al. (2008)
• Appendix F: Chi-Square Distribution Table
• Appendix G: 2x3x2 Three-Way Contingency Tables for Propositions 6a and 6b
• References