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The different types of outsourcing have emerged during the latest few years. The most common types of those cases and their features have been documented and analysed fairly well. In this paper a specific type of outsourcing through combining software departments of several companies is documented and analysed. The analysed case differs from the more commonly analysed cases and therefore adds an interesting point of view to the general knowledge of outsourcing and the possible pitfalls associated with outsourcing activities.
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Ahonen, J.J., Valtanen, A., Savolainen, P., Schalkowski, T., Kontio, M. (2009). Outsourcing through Combining Software Departments of Several Companies. In: Berkling, K., Joseph, M., Meyer, B., Nordio, M. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01856-5_1
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