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The Effect of Corporate Strategy and IT Role on the Intent for IT Outsourcing Decision

조직의 전략과 정보기술 역할이 아웃소싱 의도결정에 미치는 영향

  • Published : 2008.02.28
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Abstract

Corporate managers look at IT outsourcing as long-term strategic choices not as short-term tactical ones, and maximizing the effect that IT outsourcing brings about is the main concern to them. Emerging different types of IT outsourcing and their effects on the corporate business decisions necessitate the research on this subject. According to previous researches, the Intent for IT outsourcing is categorized as IS Improvement, Business Impact, and Commercial Exploitation. The decison factors for these IT outsourcing include corporate strategy types, IT role, and interaction between these two. Firm size and IT maturity are selected as moderating factors to add the credibility to the research of the effect of IT outsourcing decision making. Analyzing collected data revealed that corporate strategy rather than IT role is more significant factor affecting the intent for IT outsourcing decision. Defenders(as in corporate strategy types) tend to use IT outsourcing more as a means to improve information systems, compared to analyzers and reactors. Prospectors tend to use IT outsourcing more as a commercial exploitation, compared to analyzers and reactors. These outcomes prove that corporate strategy characteristics reflect outsourcing intent. There were previous researches that showed outsourcing decision depends on IT role, however the hypothesis was rejected that IT role determines outsourcing intent. It was also rejected that the interaction between corporate strategy types and IT role determines outsourcing intent. Corporate decision makers should first analyze corporate strategy, and reflect it on the outsourcing intent when they make IT outsourcing decisions. Only the precise defining of IT outsourcing intent will lower the risk and increase the possibility of success.

정보기술 아웃소싱의 확대와 함께 최근 들어 아웃소싱을 전술적인 의도가 아닌 전략적인 의도에서 바라보며 비즈니스에 미치는 효과를 최대화하고자 아웃소싱을 추진하는 기업이 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 다양한 형태를 보이고 있는 아웃소싱의 의도 결정에 영향을 미치는 요인에 대한 연구의 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 아웃소싱 의도는 선행 연구에 따라 정보시스템 개선, 사업에의 영향, 상업적 이용으로 분류하였고, 이러한 아웃소싱 의도를 결정하는 요인으로 조직 전략 유형 및 정보기술 역할 그리고 이들 간의 상호작용을 채택하고, 이들 요인이 아웃소싱 의도 결정에 미치는 효과를 보다 명확하게 파악하고자 조직 규모 및 정보기술 성숙도를 조절변수로 채택하였다. 분석 결과 정보기술의 역할보다는 조직의 전략이 아웃소싱 의도 결정에 영향을 미치는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 조직의 전략 유형 중 방어자는 분석자와 수동적 반응자에 비해 정보시스템 개선을 위한 의도로 아웃소싱하는 정도가 높았다. 또한 탐색자의 경우에는 분석자 및 수동적 반론-자에 비해 상업적 이용을 위한 의도로 아웃소싱하는 정도가 높았다. 이는 조직의 전략적 특성이 아웃소싱 의도에 반영되는 것으로 볼 수 있다. 정보기술의 역할에 따라 아웃소싱 결정이 달라진다는 선행 연구가 있지만, 정보기술의 역할에 따라 아웃소싱 의도가 달라진다고 보기는 어려운 것으로 밝혀졌다. 또한 조직의 전략 유형 및 정보기술 역할 간 상호작용에 따라 아웃소싱 의도가 달라진다고 보기는 어려운 것으로 나타났다. 아웃소싱 결정을 내리게 될 때 조직의 전략을 적극적으로 파악 및 반영하여 아웃소싱의 의도를 분명히 한다면, 아웃소싱의 실패 위험을 낮추고 성공 가능성을 높여주게 될 것이다.

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