This book is a guide for achieving innovation through outsourcing. Written by leading figures in the area of outsourcing, this book offers both the academic rigor and the hands-on experience based on dozens of cases that walk the reader from the very beginning of the outsourcing journey to the successful delivery of transformative innovations.
Leslie P. Willcocks is Professor in Technology, Work and Globalization at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He heads the LSE’s Outsourcing Unit research centre and is Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Information Technology. Previously he taught at Oxford University for nine years. His doctorate is from the University of Cambridge.
Ilan Oshri is Professor of technology and globalisation at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of
Offshoring Strategies: Evolving Captive Centers Models (MIT Press, 2011), and the co-author of
The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring (Palgrave, 2015). He has co-authored 13 books and published numerous articles in academic and professional journals. His work on outsourcing was featured on BBC Radio 4 and in
BusinessWeek,
The Financial Times and many other outlets. Ilan is a regular speaker in international conferences and a keynote speaker in corporate and industry events.
Julia Kotlarsky is a Professor of Technology and Global Sourcing at Aston Business School, UK. Her research interests revolve around outsourcing and offshoring of services, globally distributed teams, knowledge and innovation. She has published her work in numerous journals including
MIS Quarterly, the
European Journal of Information Systems, the
Journal of Strategic Information Systems and
Communication Research. Julia has published 12 books, among them
The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring. She serves as Associate Editor for
MIS Quarterly and Senior Editor for the
Journal of Information Technology, and is co-founder of the annual Global Sourcing Workshop.