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The institutional politics of change in an outsourced project

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:16 authored by Royston Morgan, Desmond Doran, Stephanie Morgan, Papadopoulos Thanos
This paper focuses on unique longitudinal research within a multi-vendor outsourcing environment in the European Defence Sector. It describes the unfolding relationship between vendors and a major defence organization as the vendors developed, implemented and then managed a human resource management (HRM) system. This paper examines the apparent paradox between the wide scale adoption of outsourcing and its relatively poor performance and outcomes. The research suggests this comes from a loose coupling between the rational logic of outsourcing practice and the interpretation and enactment by interest groups that is exaggerated by the imposition of fixed deadlines and strong contractual governance.

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  • paper

Event name

22nd Euroma Conference: Operations Management for Sustainable Competitiveness

Event location

Neuchatel

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conference

Event date

26 June - 1 July 2015

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  • Economics Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2017-07-18

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-07-18

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-07-18

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