Performance of Firms

Author(s):  
Soni Agrawal ◽  
Kishor Goswami ◽  
Bani Chatterjee

With the evolution of information technology, firms offshore outsource services to developing and low service cost countries to have cost as well competitive advantages. This is a growing practice, but there has been limited empirical attention in understanding the outsourcing phenomenon, particularly from the perspective of service provider firms that execute important business processes for their overseas clients. This shows the need to study the factors that play a significant role in the growing trend to outsource and why only a few service provider firms report success. In this chapter, the authors try to find factors that influence performance of service provider firms. Multiple regressions using four indicators of firm performance are carried out to see the influence of certain factors on Information Technology Enabled Service (ITES) firms’ performance.

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soni Agrawal ◽  
Kishor Goswami ◽  
Bani Chatterjee

Firms from developed countries are increasingly offshore outsourcing services to developing countries to have cost as well competitive advantages. Although this is a growing practice, there has been limited empirical attention in understanding the outsourcing phenomenon, particularly from the perspective of service provider firms that execute important business processes for their overseas clients. Despite growing trends to outsource, only a few service provider firms report success. This puts the service provider firms under increasing pressure to add value and improve quality of relationship. They have to depend not only on tangible factors but some intangible factors also play an important role in their performance. In this paper, the authors try to find out factors that influence performance of service provider firms. Multiple regressions using four indicators of firm performance are carried out to see the influence of certain factors on information technology enabled service (ITES) firms’ performance.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanes Fernandes Andry

Established in 2001, XYZ Cargo is a Freight Forwarder Service Company specialized in the logistic transportation located in Jakarta. XYZ Cargo has broad experiences in both ocean freight and air freight service and has more than sixty agents of partnership around the world. XYZ Cargo has implemented Information Technology (IT) that covers all key aspects of business processes of the enterprise. It has an impact on the strategic and competitive advantages of its success. Many organizations have started implementing IT governance in order to achieve the collaboration between business and IT. The purpose of this research is to get an overview of performance measurement of the currently-running IT Governance with several aspects to consider such as effectiveness, efficiency, functional unit of information technology within an organization, data integrity, safeguarding assets, reliability, confidentiality, availability, and security. The analytical tool used in this research is the COBIT 5 standard procedure by ISACA. The result of IT Governance based on COBIT 5 in domain EDM, shows average values at the level of 2.0 until 2.7 (managed process) for EDM01, EDM02, EDM03 and 1.3 until 1.7 (performed process) for EDM04, EDM05.


2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Dehning ◽  
Vernon J. Richardson

Understanding the return on investments in information technology (IT) is the focus of a large and growing body of research. The objective of this paper is to synthesize this research and develop a model to guide future research in the evaluation of information technology investments. We focus on archival studies that use accounting or market measures of firm performance. We emphasize those studies where accounting researchers with interest in market-level analyses of systems and technology issues may hold a competitive advantage over traditional information systems (IS) researchers. We propose numerous opportunities for future research. These include examining the relation between IT and business processes, and business processes and overall firm performance, understanding the effect of contextual factors on the IT-performance relation, examining the IT-performance relation in an international context, and examining the interactive effects of IT spending and IT management on firm performance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.10) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
S. Bharath ◽  
P. Nagesh ◽  
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The factors associated with branding were identified beneath communication/marketing remit.  There existed no difference between the employer brand and consumer brand.  Companies who had strong product/ service brand would de facto be attractive to potential employees. Today, companies require blended capabilities. Ultimately, it is the personal experience of the relationship that a person develops within an organization that determines the longevity and win-win consummation of association. An extended concept of relationship marketing principle is Employer branding. An endeavor has been made through this research with an objective to identify the Employer Branding Dimensions (EBD) in selected Information technology firms located in Bangalore from existing employee perspective. Study has been executed using structured questionnaire with Information Technology (IT) employees as respondents from various companies like, Infosys, IBM, NTT DATA, Marvell technologies, JDA software solutions. Data thus collected is analysed using software package and considering the factor loadings, key dimensions (factors) that constituted the Employer branding. The findings of the study emphasize that relationship among dimensions constituting individual employer branding highlights the complexity in its significance as no individual factor has dominant influence on Employer Branding. But many factors in combination acts on branding.   


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