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Relationship-contract-and-IT-outsourcing-success.[taliem.ir]

Relationship, contract and IT outsourcing success: Evidence from two descriptive case studies

In spite of the continuous increase in IT outsourcing activities globally, a significant percentage of outsourcing deals are considered either a failure or suffered from serious problems. In China where IT outsourcing practice is still at its initial stage, the situation is more serious. There lacks systematic guidance in terms of how to negotiate decent contracts and how to develop sound relationships. In view of this, an emerging trend of research has explored either the contract or relationship issues in successful IT outsourcing. However, few efforts have been paid to investigate the effects of both relationship and contract on IT outsourcing success with an integrated view. The current research develops a research framework based on the theories in Economics ,Management and Marketing fields to investigate the effects of both relationship and contract on IT outsourcing success. To support the propositions, evidence was collected from two descriptive case studies conducted in Hong Kong and Mainland China respectively. The case analysis implies the dimensionalities of relationship and contract. What is more, IT outsourcing success is mainly evaluated from the technological benefits instead of the strategic or economic benefits the client company could gain from an IT outsourcing relationship. A significant contribution of this study to theory is to look into IT outsourcing phenomenon with a balanced view and through an integrated theoretical lens. For practitioners, this research helps clear executives’ doubts about simultaneously employing both relationship and contract as a governance mechanism in managing IT outsourcing deals .
Relationship Discovery with NetFlow to Enable[taliem.ir]

Relationship Discovery with NetFlow to Enable Business-Driven IT Management

The understanding of relationships and dependencies between business processes and the underlying IT infrastructure is important for enabling business-driven IT management. This work uses the widespread NetFlow feature to derive direct and indirect traffic relationships in IT infrastructures. We define an algorithm for relationship discovery with NetFlow and describe the application of the discovery approach in a large production environment.
Impact of Total Quality Management on Innovation in Service[taliem.ir]

Impact of Total Quality Management on Innovation in Service Organizations: Literature review and New Conceptual Framework

Purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the relationship between total quality management TQM and innovation in services organization, and to develop a research conceptual framework on this relationship. The most recent studies investigated the TQMinnovation relationship and involved service industries in its scope have been reviewed. A discussion on the TQM practices in service organization is presented and conceptual framework and model are proposed.
Examining the Relationship between Topic Model[taliem.ir]

Examining the Relationship between Topic Model Similarity and Software Maintenance

Software maintenance is the last phase of software development, and typically one of the most time- consuming. One reason for this is the difficulty in finding related source code fragments. A high-level understanding of the source code is necessary to make decisions about which source code fragments should be modified together, for example, in the context of fixing a bug. Even with a similarity metric available, understanding what it means to measure similarity in the first place is important; if a technique suggests that two source code fragments are related, is there a human-oriented way of explaining that relation? In this paper, we attempt to identify a concrete link between software maintenance and the similarity metrics provided by latent topic models. We show that similarity in topic models is related to the likelihood that source code fragments will be modified together in the future, and that an awareness of similar source code can make software maintenance easier.