IT外包已成为国内外学术界和产业界关注的热点,学术研究文献数量逐年增加。本研究以Web of Science数据库中收录的1236篇IT外包文献为研究对象,首先对IT外包研究文献的时空分布进行了统计分析,然后采用定量研究方法借助知识可视化实验技术探讨总结出IT外包研究的演进路径,揭示出IT外包的研究热点主题与研究前沿领域。
IT outsourcing has become a hot topic of the academia and the industrial circle at home and abroad,the literature quantity of academic research has increased year by year. The paper studied the 1236 articles about IT outsourcing from Web of Science database The distribution of time,geographic regions of the published papers regarding to IT outsourcing were analyzed first,then we made use of the developed information visualization method to analyze the data. Based on the visualization results,we summarized the development venation of IT outsourcing research,confirmed the hot domains and the research front.