Title
Inter-sourcing: alternative IT sourcing solutions using student interns
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-30-2013
Abstract
Information Technology (IT) sourcing decisions are motivated by cost savings, skills acquisition, and staffing flexibility. The research in progress introduces a new alternative in sourcing, inter-sourcing. This practice incorporates the benefits of offshoring and outsourcing, while eliminating many of the challenges. University interns perform IT projects for corporations as employees of satellite offices. This paper presents the emergent themes from exploratory interviews with directors of three satellite offices, university staff members, and the director of the associated business incubator. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, along with future directions for this research.
Publication Title
SIGMIS-CPR’13 Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
Recommended Citation
Buche, M. W.
(2013).
Inter-sourcing: alternative IT sourcing solutions using student interns.
SIGMIS-CPR’13 Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research, 117-122.
http://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487318
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/business-fp/137
Publisher's Statement
© 2013 Association for Computing Machinery. Publisher’s version of record: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487318