CONTEXT: Studying work practices in the context of Global Software Development (GSD)
projects entails multiple opportunities and challenges for the researchers. Understanding …

Within the service sector, the software industry has been among the prime movers in the
process of offshoring work to new destinations. This is facilitated by the immaterial character …

During recent years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies with
global practices have begun to build near-or offshore software delivery centers all over the …

We report on an ethnographic study of an outsourcing global software development (GSD)
setup between an Indian IT vendor and an IT development division of a Danish bank. We …

In this paper, we address the issue of communication difficulties on globally distributed
offshoring projects. We argue that although communication issues feature prominently in the …

Offshoring and outsourcing have become the buzzwords of the IT community and the
popular media discourse about the current era of globalization in services. Acknowledging …

This article investigates the experiences of employees and managers in Swedish
companies that offshore IT services to India, focusing on how implementation of offshoring is …

Prior research has shown that the success of offshoring is affected by relational behaviours
of the employees involved in an offshoring collaboration. However, hardly anything is known …

Global software development (GSD) outsourcing setups are assumed to allow IT developers
to work anywhere and anytime, removing the contextual contingencies of physical location …

This work aims to shed light on the process through which small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) identify new business opportunities within their ongoing offshoring …