The Fit between Client IT Capability and Vendor Competence and Its Impact on Outsourcing Success

This study investigates the impact of client firm’s IT capability, vendor firm’s competence and their fit on the outsourcing success. In theory building, by concretizing the concepts of IT capability and competence based on the resource-based view, the importance of fit between the client’s IT capability and the vendor’s competence is emphasized. We then hypothesize that both factors are stronger together than the individual impact of either the client’s IT capability or the vendor’s competence. For validation, 267 client-vendor-matched-pair data were collected. To avoid potential imbalance caused by the bilateral perspective, an exploratory approach, all-possible-subsets-regression method was adopted. The results reveal that the vendor’s competence is the most significant factor in outsourcing success, but interestingly, the fit between vendor competence and the client’s IT capability is the second most important. The client’s IT capability also has a positive impact on outsourcing success but with the smallest explanation power

Port Selection Criteria for the Korea-China Train Ferry

The Korea-China Train Ferry can be one option to enter into Eurasia and a meaningful way to extend the route forlogistics enterprise and manufacturers of Korea to reach the broaderglobal marketalong with specific access to China. Under this scenaris, this study is designed to look at the progress and status of the Korea-China Train Ferry project as anopportunity for Korea to build a path towards Eurasia and to review factors and opinions to consider in port selectionbased on in-depth interviewswith industry participants andexperts. It alsoaims to discuss ideas for a Korea-Chinalogistics cooperative system. For the train ferry's success, agreements between Korea and China are essential to ensure consistency inbase ports and customsclearance procedures and long-term preparation should be made in the first phase to build the framework for the Korea-China Train Ferry operations