The offshoring phenomenon has created several research opportunities pertaining to the effective management of IT services emanating from globally-distributed and virtual teams, and differences in cultures, native languages, and legal, educational, and economic systems. Further, offshoring creates a variety of new social impacts in both client and provider countries including retraining, morale, and burnout. Offshoring has simultaneously created challenges for the IS academia. The real and perceived loss of jobs from offshoring is one of several reasons for the widespread declining enrollments in IS programs in the US and Europe, and this has also raised issues of IS curriculum redesign. The panel will discuss offshoring in a balanced manner considering both the advantages and risks of offshoring and discussing opportunities and challenges in theory building and curriculum redesign.
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