StaffVirtual - Philippines

StaffVirtual provide BPO and ITO based in the Philippines. These are specialist services delivered digitally by highly educated, skilled, talented, committed, people based in the Philippines.
What capabilities make these services valuable and attractive to distant clients?
What are they doing that enables them to ‘fit’ or ’match’ the client?

http://www.staffvirtual.com/

IAM 2017 Call For Papers

The 2017 Irish Academy of Management (IAM) Conference is being hosted by Queen’s Management School, Queen’s University Belfast, from the 30th August to the 1st September, 2017.

Abstracts will be double peer-reviewed. Submission details and further information about the conference can be found on the conference website.
www.iamireland.ie

We look forward to welcoming you to Belfast!
Dr Geoff Simmons and Dr Kristel Miller
Conference Chairs, Queen’s Management School
E-mail: IAM2017@qub.ac.uk

Seminar - TestReach; the Online Testing and Supervision Company

[guest lecture] Louella Morton and Brian Mc Hugh (12:00pm midday Tuesday) 7th Feb - TestReach - Online Testing and Supervision. A talk on TestReach's corporate development, philosophy, history, organisation, approach to product management and product design. http://www.testreach.com/

Version1 Seminar 2017

Peter Smyth: Head of Managed Services, Version 1

[guest lecture] Peter Smyth (5:15pm Monday 6th Feb in room N303) - Verison1 the Irish Consulting, Solutions and Outsourced Managed Services Company. Procurement stories and Agile serverless technologies. http://www.version1.com/

PMIA Seminar

Ready for the value chain exercise.

Look out for the value chain exercise captured in stop-motion.
PMIA : Proudly Made In Africa: value chain exercise from Allen Higgins on Vimeo.

How ICT sourcing and development affects social development

Working Group 9.4 from the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a scholarly forum for dealing with the issues ICT impacting social development.

The IFIP 9.4 Working Croup has a series of scholarly conferences that seek critical perspectives on processes of growth and development, inclusiveness and social transformation through the impacts of global ICT and BPO sourcing.
http://2017.ifipwg94.net/tracks/track-09-global-sourcing-and-development/
(also see
Submission deadline: November 15, 2016

Mt Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia (image source Wikipedia)

Our interest is in how ICT sourcing and globally distributed software development activity is implicated in local social development in the regions from which these activities are sourced. Going one step further we assert that the research object of a 'national' need and response is too abstract, that we need to understand the local rather than national context if meaningful engagement in development is to occur. This is because the more abstract the concepts the more easily does organisational and social action dissipate, thus loosing its efficacy and meaning. Worse, they may be subverted as resources by and for other actors and power interests (Cooke, B, 2004). Postcolonial critics of international development drawing upon 'subaltern studies' have exposed global, regional, and national inequalities. Subalterns reveal workers subjectivities in situ, from the local's perspective rather than the development or governmental agency.

One strand of theorising how inequalities arise against people's best intentions is through the unintended consequence of language games in public discourse. Organisation and management theorists assert that the use of spatial signifiers produces actual idealogical realities in the field of international development. That is, spatial labels produce the categories they refer to. This is an old trick from the days of colonialisation, to label the other (the developing or underdeveloped world) in contrast to the West, or the Northern Hemisphere or developed economies etc. The consequence is to justify and legitimise various national, governmental, organisational and managerial interventions in international development (Gupta, 1998).


References and further reading:
Cooke, B. (2004) ‘Managing the (Third) World’, Organization 11(5): 603-629.
Gupta, A. (1998) Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

also see 43-CMS-2017-Stream-Proposal-Global-South-reconfigured-1.pdf

Asia-Pacific Global Sourcing Conference

23-25 September 2016
Renmin University, Beijing, China

A call for Papers for the 1st Asia-Pacific Global Sourcing Conference, which will be held on September 23-25, 2016 in Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.

See the website

The conference will aim to explore how new and emerging forms of outsourcing and offshoring challenge sourcing practices and theories, and consequently identify new directions for research and practice. The conference aims to bring together viewpoints from various disciplines, including information systems, international business, operation management and strategy on global sourcing of IT, Business Services and Innovation.

The keynote speech will be delivered by Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Chair in Business Administration, University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Jarvenpaa is known for her academic leadership in inter-organisational research, focusing on collaborative modes including outsourcing.

Paper Track

Research articles, work in progress and ‘focus on practice’ papers that investigate topics relating to global outsourcing and offshoring. Some of the specific themes that are of interest include:


* Sourcing decision making
* Sourcing configurations (multi-sourcing, plural sourcing, supplier networks, eco-systems)
* Relational and contractual governance issues
* Supplier and client capabilities and competences
* Innovation through outsourcing
* Cultural and social issues
* Knowledge issues in outsourcing
* Impact sourcing
* Automation in outsourcing
* Cloud services (as service economy)
* Crowdsourcing
* Repatriation/backsourcing

We are interested in papers that are both conceptual and empirically based.

Selected papers from the conference will be published as book chapters in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing<http://www.springer.com/series/7911> (by Springer<http://www.springer.com>).

Important Dates:
· May 30th 2016: Registration opens
· June 10th 2016: Deadline to submit extended abstract
· June 17th 2016: Notification of accepted extended abstract
· August 1st 2016: Early registration deadline
· August 20th 2016: Deadline to submit full paper
· September 23-25 2016: Conference

Extended abstracts should be in English, between 600-800 words and should include contact details of all authors. Full papers (in English) should not exceed 9,000 words.
All submissions should be sent in MS Word format to: asia.pacific.globalsourcing@gmail.com<mailto:asia.pacific.globalsourcing@gmail.com>
with 'Abstract submission APGSC 2016' as the subject of the e-mail.