Product Description: The notion of outsourcing – making arrangements with an external entity for the provision of goods or services to supplement or replace internal efforts – has been around for centuries. The outsourcing of information systems (IS) is however a much newer concept but one which has been growing dramatically...read more

Product Description: The outsourcing revolution is underway as increasing numbers of major corporations transfer their information systems (IS) assets, leases and staff to third-party vendors. In-depth interviews with individuals from 13 different companies who have gone through formal IS outsourcing reveal insights about the intentions, motivations and consequences of this rapidly growing area...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ever since Eastman Kodak announced that it was outsourcing its information systems (IS) function in 1988 to IBM, DEC and Businessland, large companies have found it acceptable or even fashionable to transfer their IS assets, leases and staff the third-party vendors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many relevant questions about development, use and evaluation of management information systems (MIS) cannot be satisfactorily addressed by contemporary approaches. Still they can be attacked by research methods developed in various reference disciplines...read more

Product Description: The growing interest in and use of microcomputers in the humanities and social sciences is the subject of this book. It investigates the myriad issues associated with the use of microcomputers in universities, colleges and other educational institutions, (with examples from UK universities illustrating the text), extending beyond the traditionally computationally intensive fields...read more