Knowledge Resource Diversity in Inter-Organizational Relationships

Mihir Parikh
MIS Department at University of Central Florida

Wednesday 7 June 2006
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.


Fifth Floor, Tower One

Organizations increasingly rely on inter-organizational relationships to access resources that are critical to build unique capabilities but are internally unavailable. Information systems development outsourcing (IS outsourcing) is one example of such relationships in which knowledge resources related to business and technical aspects are merged through cross-organizational teams to build an information system that provides the organization with unique capabilities. IS outsourcing is growing rapidly with the globalization of IT workforce and greater permeability of organizational boundaries, but our understanding of knowledge resource management in IS outsourcing is in infancy. This research presentation focuses on knowledge resource diversity in IS outsourcing projects. It presents the findings of qualitative and quantitative analyses conducted on the data collected from 122 projects across 18 outsourcing vendors. Knowledge resource diversity is found to have negative effects on affective consequences, positive effects on cognitive consequences, and mixed effects on communication consequences. In addition, it has a curvilinear (inverted “U”) relationship with project performance. The presentation also discusses implications of these findings for both research and practice in organizing effective cross-organizational teams for IS outsourcing projects.
 
 
Mihir A. Parikh (Ph.D. – Georgia State University) is an Assistant Professor in the MIS Department at University of Central Florida. As an active researcher, he has published over 30 refereed papers in various journals, such as Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Engineering Management Journal, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and in the proceedings of prestigious national and international conferences. He has also been invited to present his research at various forums and universities in the USA, the UK, Denmark, Greece, India, Israel, and Taiwan. His research interests are in the areas of IT-intensive inter-organizational relationships, management of emerging information technologies, decision support and knowledge management. Recently, he was instrumental in designing and developing as the founding academic director of a cross-disciplinary Doctoral Program in Technology Management at Polytechnic University. For over ten years, he has developed and taught degree courses at the executive, graduate, and undergraduate levels and offered educational seminars to executives in the USA and Israel in the areas of Management Information Systems, eBusiness, Data Communications and Telecom Technology Management, and IT-enabled Global Innovations and Strategy.  Additional information.


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