CONTEXT: Distributed Software Development (DSD) has recently become an active
research area. Although considerable research effort has been made in this area, as yet, no …

This paper aims to address this lack of research by develo** a conceptual stages-of-
growth (SoG) model for managing a social media business profile (SMBP). Extant research …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersection of sustainability and
global IT outsourcing (GITO). GITO is well established as a business practice towards …

Aligning business and IT in networked organizations is a complex endeavor because in
such settings, business-IT alignment is driven by economic processes instead of by …

A systematic review of the published literature on distributed software development (DSD)
resulted in the selection of 30 studies of acceptable rigor for detailed review. This summary …

Many people have contributed to this doctoral thesis with support of many kinds: Through
practical help, suggestions of ideas, and editing. Foremost, I would like to thank my thesis …

To support the difficult process of SOA adoption, SOA maturity models are published. In this
thesis a literature analysis introduces the area of SOA maturity models and highlights …

The current success of organizations depends on the successful implementation of
Information and Comunication Technologies (ICTs). Good governance and ICT …

Software outsourcing is the exchange of projects, tasks, resources or activity in distributed
environment. Due to mismanagement and wrong decision making in outsourcing tasks there …

The decision process for companies to outsource information technology (IT) or not is a
substantial business change and in many cases the competence to take such decisions is …