Brief description: Key issues of global software industry, international outsourcing (i.e. software production outsourcing, IT activities and IT infrastructure outsourcing, and business process outsourcing), and the transfer of high technology from both domestic and international perspectives. The course cases deal with companies operating in the leading software producing nations and markets of the world. Also the case companies feature the current experiences, problems, and impacts related to IT supported outsourcing and international transfer of high technology. Several of the cases that are analyzed in this course have been investigated in-depth onsite by the lecturer and prepared by her.