A new look at nearly 20 years of theoretical and practical research on IT outsourcing. The book explores how good IT outsourcing theories shape practice and how effective IT outsourcing practices inform theory. It highlights the importance of examining theories borrowed from economics, strategy, and sociology to study IT outsourcing.

SARA CULLEN is the Managing Director of The Cullen Group and a Fellow at Melbourne University, Australia DAVID FEENY is Professor of Information Management, and Fellow at Templeton-Green College, University of Oxford, UK JOHN HINDLE is Head of Global Marketing for Accenture HR services, and a founding member of Knowledge Capital Partners, UK RUDY HIRSCHHEIM is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Louisiana State University, USA THOMAS KERN is CIO& Executive Manager of KERN Global Language Services. He received his DPhil in Management Information Systems from Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK JULIA KOTLARSKY is Associate Professor of Information Systems at Warwick Business School, UK ILAN OSHRI is Associate Professor of Strategy and Technology Management at Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus, The Netherlands LAURA POPPO is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, USA PETER REYNOLDS is a Research Fellow in the Department of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia JOSEPH ROTTMAN is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA PETER SEDDON is Associate Professor in the department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia