Designig The Conceptual Model Of Partnership Quality In Services Outsourcing (Case Study: Isfahan Gas Company)
Subject Areas : Industrial Managementreza shojaey 1 , naser khani 2 , arash shahin 3 , nader Aleebrahim 4
1 - Department of Management, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
2 - Department of managment, Najafabad Branch,Islamic Azad University,Najafabad,Iran.
3 - sdf
4 - Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 50603, Malaysia
Keywords: Partnership Quality, Services Outsourcing, Grounded Theory,
Abstract :
Organizations outsource some of their services to achieve benefits such as reducing costs and focusing on their core activities. Despite the important strategic advantages of outsourcing in the service sector, there are many problems. Many researchers have done research focused on service receiver to solve these problems. This research seeks to explain the model of partnership quality in outsourcing services with the grounded theory approach from both sides of outsourcing contract in Isfahan Gas Company. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Through purposeful sampling method, 35 managers, employees and 17 contractors were interviewed for data collection. Data analysis was performed in three stages of open, axial and selective coding and the qualitative model of the research was extracted. The concepts and categories extracted in the last step are presented in the form of pivotal phenomena, causal factors, contextual conditions, intervention conditions, strategies and outcomes. The result shows the extraction of more than 105 codes of interviews as well as the identification of 24 concepts and 15 subcategories and 6 main categories presented in the paradigm model. According to the results of this study, the most important operational strategies are empowerment, standardization and technology improvement to achieve partnership quality in services outsourcing.
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