Examining the outsourcing decision - A structure/agency perspective
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Faculty
Faculty of Business and Public Management
School
School of Business
RAS ID
1211
Abstract
Organisations adopt outsourcing for a number of different reasons. It is useful to examine the process by which organisations make such decisions and the impacting influences on the decision. The paper initially presents a perspective based around diffusion theory and argues that such theory ignores the impact of wider high level macro influences. A model is then developed incorporating such wider macro level influences to help explain why organisations make the decisions they do. It suggests that the 'outsourcing bandwagon' can be considered as derivable from external social 'structures' which impact internal agency decision. The paper finally develops a framework for categorising the major impacts on the decision process.
Comments
Dobson, P.J. (2001). Examining the outsourcing decision - a structure/agency perspective. In: Stoney, S., & Burn, J. (Eds.). Working for excellence in the e-conomy: 2nd international We-B conference (pp. 109-117). Churchlands, Australia: We-B Centre, School of Management Information Systems, Edith Cowan University.