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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 January 2010
      20 November 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511615351
      9780521816045
      9780521039482
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615351
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 282 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.462kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Technology Management, Engineering, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology
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    This book offers key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries. It is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the UK, Japan and Korea with Indian software houses. In these case studies, which have typically been compiled over a 3-4 year timespan, the authors analyse the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). These challenges range from the conflicts that managers face when dealing with distance, to the tensions of transferring knowledge across time and space, to issues in trying to establish universal standards in a context of constant change, and the problems of identity that developers and clients experience in having to deal with different organizations and countries. Throughout the book, the authors draw on their extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs more effectively.

    Reviews

    ‘Global outsourcing is now very big news. This looks at one aspect and is a real in-depth study.’

    Source: The Bookseller

    ‘This book will be of interest not only to the sociologist and the manager but also to anyone who wants to get a clear picture of what globalization actually means and who wants to go beyond the slogans and clichés of the heated debate being held in the streets and in the plush chairs of countless conferences.’

    Source: Leonardo Reviews

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