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Some political and cultural issues in the
globalisation of software development: case
experience from Britain and India.
| Title: | Some political and cultural issues in the
globalisation of software development: case
experience from Britain and India. | | Authors: | Brian Nicholson and Sundeep Sahay | | Publication: | Information and Organization / Elsevier Science | | Enumeration: | Vol. 11, pp. 25–43, Year 2001 | | Abstract: | Global outsourcing of software development is a phenomenon that is receiving considerable
interest from North American and European companies currently under pressure to meet their
growing manpower resource shortages and find new ways to cut costs. However, these outsourcing
arrangements are technologically and organisationally complex, and present a variety
of challenges to manage effectively. In this paper we discuss results from an ongoing longitudinal
study of a British firm’s attempts to develop and manage global software outsourcing
arrangements with an Indian software company. More specifically, we focus on understanding
management challenges along three key dimensions of culture, organisational politics and the
process of distributed development across time and space. The process of globalisation provides
the context within which these management challenges can be investigated. (c) Elsevier Science Ltd. 2001
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