Socially Responsible Outsourcing

Global Sourcing with Social Impact
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-55728-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 559 g

Reihe: Technology, Work and Globalization

Socially Responsible Outsourcing is an edited collection that focus on the topic of socially responsible outsourcing (SRO) including research frameworks, rich case studies, and an SRO agenda for the future.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nicholson, Brian

Lacity, Mary C.

Babin, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Outsourcing

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
Brian Nicholson, Ron Babin, Mary C. Lacity

2. The Impact of Impact Sourcing: Framing a Research Agenda
Erran Carmel, Mary C. Lacity and Andrew Doty.

3. Exploring the 'impact' in Impact sourcing ventures: A sociology of space perspective
Sandeep, M. S., and M. N. Ravishankar

4. The Rural BPO Sector in India: Encouraging inclusive growth through entrepreneurship
Shirin Madon and C. Ranjini

5. Social outsourcing as a development tool: The impact of outsourcing IT services to women's social enterprises in Kerala.
Richard Heeks and Shoba Arun.

6. Assessing the Social Development Potential of Impact Sourcing
Fareesa Malik, Brian Nicholson and Sharon Morgan

7. Competition in Online Job Market Place: Towards a global labour market for outsourcing services.
Niels Beerepoot and Bart Lambregts

8. Impact sourcing: employing prison inmates to perform digitally-enabled business services.
Mary C. Lacity, Joseph W. Rottman, and Erran Carmel

9. Exploring the effects liminality on corporate social responsibility in inter-firm outsourcing relationships
Brian Nicholson, Ron Babin and Steve Briggs

10. Impact Sourcing: Aboriginal Case Study
Ron Babin, Brian Nicholoson Megan Young

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Mary Lacity is Curators' Professor of Information Systems and an International Business Fellow at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. She is also Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, UK and has published twenty books.

Dr Brian Nicholson is Professor at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. Since 1995, he has been involved in teaching, research and consultancy projects in the broad area of global sourcing of software and other business processes. Brian has authored two previous books including Sustainable Global Outsourcing (Palgrave, 2012) with Ron Babin.

Dr. Ron Babin is Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the role of global IT and business process outsourcing in business and the impact on society. Dr. Babin teaches Global Technology Trends to MBA and undergraduate students. He is also an accomplished executive educator in the area of outsourcing strategy, governance and relationship management. Prior to joining Ryerson University, Dr. Babin was a strategy partner at Accenture and at KPMG.