Title: Investigating the influence of opportunistic behaviour risk factors on offshore outsourcing

Authors: Prashant Chauhan; Sunand Kumar; Rajiv Kumar Sharma

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, PIN 177 005, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, PIN 177 005, India

Abstract: Different type of risks contributes to offshore outsourcing, which are not only difficult to measure but also complex to analyse because of intricate inter-relationships among them. Above all, opportunistic behaviour risk is related to the behaviour of service provider which may result in failure of coordination Therefore, in this paper, authors tried to abridge the gap between theory and practices by identifying various opportunistic behaviour risk factors and further developed an ISM model to analyse the influence of these risks on offshore outsourcing. Findings from the study indicate that communication gap and incomplete specification of work are strong drivers which influence other risk factors and ultimately affect offshore outsourcing. The work presented in the paper helps managers to identify and classify important criteria and to reveal the direct and indirect effects of each criterion on offshore outsourcing.

Keywords: supply chain coordination; offshore outsourcing; opportunistic behaviour risk; interpretive structural modelling; ISM; cross impact matrix.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2017.083570

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2017 Vol.12 No.2, pp.249 - 274

Received: 15 Aug 2015
Accepted: 09 Nov 2015
Published online: 11 Apr 2017 *

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