Consideration of the ethics of digital sourcing highlights the issues of leadership, the person, connections, responsibility and responsible sourcing for technology services and business processes.
Topics of interest include:
- Issues of global, geographical separation, and teams
- Hybrid organisations
- Cultural clash and compatibility
- New trends, impact of emerging forms of organisation and technology
- Impact sourcing for social change
- Waste and value, sustainability
- Social responsibility
- Raising awareness of issues surrounding the global sourcing of IT and Business Process capability.
- Study the role of NGOs in Ireland and the challenges they face in developing countries in raising the level of key human development indicators.
- Develop new ideas broadly aligned with the theme of sustainable responsible sourcing.
- Literature reviews.
- Desk research analysing aggregate social/economic indicators.
- Reversals in directionality of innovation; from developing countries into developed economies.
- Develop case studies of sourcing enterprises from the perspective of:
- suppliers
- clients
- consumers
- regulators
- mediators
- NGOs
- venture capital or other investment organisations
- government development agencies
- public services
- Option of general cases or research into any one or more of the main themes from the global offshore and outsourcing literature including:
- Sourcing models and decisions
- Country attractiveness
- Supplier capabilities and strategies
- Knowledge
- The client perspective
- The IT outsourcing lifecycle
- Governance and regulation
- Distributed teams
