The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …

Offshore outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to … relationships of IP residing in software to the business models used for outsourcing. The use of a quantitative model for software …

The concept of offshoring of professional services first gained attention slightly over 25 years ago. At that time, US … labor aspects of offshoring and its direct impact on employment opportunities in the countries involved. This paper broadens … this perspective by emphasizing that the key drivers for offshoring will be strategic, not economic, over time. A formal …

hard look at cost numbers before embarking on outsourcing. Apart from the cost of labor, equipment, and incidentals, are … needed to address the above types of questions, as well as other outsourcing related questions, such as: * What is the United … States doing to encourage/discourage outsourcing? Are these actions legal under current international trading rules? * Is the …

convinced that cost considerations should reign as the predominant decision-making factor; others argue that outsourcing means … permanent job loss; and still others believe outsourcing makes U.S. goods and services more competitive in the global … marketplace. We assert that if outsourcing options need to be analyzed in detail with critical objectivity in order to derive …