[AISWorld] Latest book on Global Sourcing of Services

[Shailendra Palvia]

Dear all:

Please also note that if you decide to adopt the book for a GLOBAL IT MANAGEMENT or GLOBAL SOURCING OF SERVICES MANAGEMENT, Short Essay Questions and Multiple Choice Questions are alos available.

Happy Holidays !!!

Sincerely

Dr. Shailendra Palvia
Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar for 2016-17
Professor of MIS, College of Management
Long Island University Post, Brookville, NY 11801.
http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia?rn=Faculty+Profiles&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty
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From: Prashant Palvia [mailto:pcpalvia at uncg.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 2:08 PM
To: AISWorld
Cc: Prashant Palvia; Shailendra Palvia
Subject: Latest book on Global Sourcing of Services

Dear AISWorld friends:

Our long-awaited book on “Global Sourcing of Services” has just been published by Now-World Scientific. The following site has content as well as ordering information:
                      http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10025

We request you to promote the book to your library, your professional contacts in academia and industry, as well use it in the classroom.  This book will be ideal for a course on Global IT Management, Outsourcing, and/or offshoring. It can be used at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

The contents include:

  *   Conceptual and Research Frameworks:

     *   Global Sourcing of Services: Why, What, Where, and How? (Shailendra C Jain Palvia)
     *   A Research Framework for the Impact of Cultural Differences on IT Outsourcing (Anil Gurung and Edmund Prater)
     *   IT Outsourcing in the Public Sector: A Literature Analysis (Sonia Gantman)

  *   Client and Vendor Issues:

     *   Lessons Learned from Global Information Technology Offshoring: Client and Vendor Perspectives (Peter Haried and K (Ram) Ramamurthy)
     *   Offshore IS Vendors: Capability, Quality, and Performance (Prashant Palvia and Shailendra C Jain Palvia)
     *   Vendor Risks in Remote Infrastructure Management Services (Saji K Mathew and Madhuchhanda Das Aundhe)
     *   Critical Issues Facing IT Outsourcing Vendors in India (Shailendra C Jain Palvia and Prashant Palvia)
     *   Client–Vendor Relationship Management in Global Sourcing (Christine V Bullen, Richard LeFave and Gad J Selig)

  *   Global Sourcing Life Cycle:

     *   A Primer on Global Sourcing Life Cycle (GSLC) (Shailendra C Jain Palvia)
     *   Offshore Outsourcing Business Models: An Analysis of Four Cases (Naureen Khan and Guy Fitzgerald)
     *   Global Sourcing of Services: A Two Stage Model for Selecting a Vendor (Shailendra C Jain Palvia)
     *   Strategy and Vendor Selection in IT Outsourcing: Is There a Method in the Madness? (Dev K Dutta, Kholekile L Gwebu and Jing Wang)
     *   Successful Enterprise System Re-Implementation: A Multi-Sourcing Case Study (Per Svejvig)
     *   Entry and Exit Strategies in Sourcing Engagement (Christine V Bullen, Richard LeFave and Gad J Selig)

  *   Project Management, Risk Management, and Social Capital in Global Sourcing:

     *   Collaboration in Global Intra-Organizational Systems Development (Madhu T Rao and Gloria Sanchez)
     *   Risk Assessment in IT Outsourcing (Saji K Mathew)
     *   Role of Social Capital in Global Sourcing (Joseph Rottman and Mary Lacity)

  *   Glossary of Terms
  *   Index
Thanks and happy holidays,

Editors: Shailendra Palvia and Prashant Palvia