Abstract
Software development projects are increasingly geographical distributed with offshoring. Co-sourcing is a highly integrative and cohesive approach, seen successful, to software development offshoring. However, research of how dynamic aspects of trust are shaped in co-sourcing activities is limited. We present a case study of how the co-sourcing relationship between a certified CMMI-level 5 Danish software company and an offshoring supplier can be conceptualized as an Abstract System. An Abstract System is a dis-embedded social system (such as banking) that is trusted despite lack of detailed understanding or personal trust relations. The paper suggest how certain work practices among developers and managers can be explained using a dynamic trust lens based on Abstract Systems, especially dis- and re-embedding mechanisms.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Eighth Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-88-6787-273-2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems - University of Verona, Verona, Italy Duration: 3 Sept 2014 → 5 Sept 2014 Conference number: 8 http://www.mcis2014.it/ |
Conference
| Conference | Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems |
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| Number | 8 |
| Location | University of Verona |
| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Verona |
| Period | 03/09/2014 → 05/09/2014 |
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| Series | Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation. Proceedings |
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| ISSN | 1934-1776 |