COLLABORATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY: DO ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES AND COUNTRY CONTEXTS MATTER?

As firms spend a growing part of their budgets on offshore activities, they experience pressure to source increasingly more complex, less codified, and more strategic IT projects abroad. Successfully completing such projects requires close collaboration among all participants. It has been argued that firms are better off keeping such projects within their organizational boundaries by setting up captive offshore development centers, especially if...