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About the Author
DR. LESLIE P. WILLCOCKS has an international reputation for his work on global management, outsourcing, digital business, information management, strategic IT and organizational change. He is Professor in Technology Work and Globalization at the Department of Management at London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr Willcocks also heads the LSE's Outsourcing Unit research centre. For the last 25 years he has been Editor-in-Chief of the 'Journal of Information Technology'. He is co-author of 48 books including, most recently, 'Moving to The Cloud Corporation' (2014) and 'The Economics of Outsourcing' (2015) and has published over 230 refereed papers in journals such as 'Harvard Business Review', 'Sloan Management Review', 'California Management Review', 'MIS Quarterly' and 'MISQ Executive'. Dr Willcocks has delivered company executive programmes worldwide and is a regular keynote speaker at international practitioner and academic conferences. (www.lse.ac.uk/management/research/outsourcingunit). Email: l.p.willcocks@lse.ac.uk. | DR. MARY C. LACITY is Curators' Professor of Information Systems at the University of Missouri, St Louis. She is also a Certified Outsourcing Professional (R), Co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series: 'Work, Technology, and Globalization', Senior Editor of 'MIS Quarterly Executive' and 'Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases' and on the Editorial Boards for 'Journal of Information Technology', 'MIS Quarterly Executive', 'Journal of Strategic Information Systems', 'IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management', and 'Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal'. Dr Lacity was inducted into the IAOP's Outsourcing Hall of Fame in 2014, and received the 2000 World Outsourcing Achievement Award sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael Corbett and Associates. She has co-authored 22 books, most recently 'Nine Keys to World-Class Business Process Outsourcing' (Bloomsbury, 2015) and 'The Rise of Legal Services Outsourcing' (Bloomsbury, 2014). Dr Lacity's publications have appeared in the 'Harvard Business Review', 'Sloan Management Review', 'MIS Quarterly', 'IEEE Computer', 'Communications of the ACM', and many other academic and practitioner outlets. Email: mary.lacity@umsl.edu.
Book Information
ISBN 9780956414564
Author Leslie P. Willcocks
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Steve Brookes Publishing
Publisher SB Publishing
Weight(grams) 860g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 33mm