Offshore outsourcing of business functions is widely practiced by firms in advanced economies. Although scholars have … concerns inadequate simultaneous attention to clients and providers - the key actors in offshore outsourcing. With an aim to … organizational factors that coevolve to enable engagement of clients and providers in offshore outsourcing. Our conceptualization …

engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …

firm-specific input suppliers when the final goods producers undertake complete outsourcing or bi-sourcing. Under complete … outsourcing, the final goods producers locate closer as the distance between the input suppliers decreases, but the distance … the final goods producers, and creates effects which are opposite to those under complete outsourcing. Thus, our results …

"Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos, Gemma Estrada, and Jesus Felipe provide an analysis of the business process outsourcing (BPO …