Analysis of the Business Risks for the Software Outsourcing between Hongkong and Guangdong

Author

Wan, Jiangping ; Li, Dejie ; Kuang, Kevin

Author_Institution

Fac. of Bus. Adm., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper identifies the risks of a company which is working at software outsourcing projects between Hongkong and Guangdong, discovers the causal relationships among the risk factors, and constructs corresponding risk structure model with Interpretive Structural Modeling. Five original risk factors are discovered, including contracts risk, requirements definition and change, lack of communication, political and legal environment differences, and exchange rate fluctuations. Finally, three advices are proposed for software outsourcing business operation: project planning, project requirements, and communication.

Keywords

DP management; outsourcing; risk management; Guangdong; Hongkong; business risks analysis; causal relationships; interpretive structural modeling; project planning; project requirements; risk factors; risk structure model; software outsourcing; Business communication; Companies; Cultural differences; Electric breakdown; Outsourcing; Personnel; Project management; Research and development; Risk analysis; Risk management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.2416

Filename

4680605