Global Information Technology Outsourcing: In Search of Business Advantage

Mary Cecelia Lacity is Associate Professor of IS MIS at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and a Research Affiliate at Templeton College, Oxford University. Her research focuses on IT management practices in sourcing, IT privatization, benchmarking, IT metrics, and client/server development. She has conducted case studies in over seventy-five organizations, surveying both US and European IT management practices and given executive seminars world-wide. She was the recipient of the 2000 World Outsourcing Achievement Award sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael Corbett and Associates. Previous publications include: Strategic Sourcing of Information Systems and articles in academic and practitioner publications such as the HBR, Sloan Management Review and MIS Quarterly. She is currently US Editor of the Journal of Information Technology.
Leslie P. Willcocks has an international reputation for his work on information Management, IT evaluation and information Systems Outsourcing. He is Fellow and University Reader at Templeton College, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor at Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam; Professorial Associate at the University of Melbourne, and Distinguished Visitor at AGSM. He holds a doctorate in information systems from the University of Cambridge, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology. He is co-author of sixteen books, including Strategic Sourcing of Information Systems and Beyond The IT Productivity Paradox with Wiley. He has published over one hundred and thirty papers in journals such as HBR; Sloan Management Review; MISQ; Communications of the ACM, and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.