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Sustainability of Business Service Outsourcing: the Case of Human Resource Outsourcing

Sako, Mari; Tierney, Abigail - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

This paper discusses the theory and evidence behind the logic of business process outsourcing, with a specific focus on … human resource outsourcing (HRO). Market analysts project rapid growth in the global market for HRO, from around $30 billion …

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Outsourcing and offshoring of businessservices: how important is ICT?

Griffith, Rachel; Abramovsky, Laura - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006

This paper considers the impact that information and communicationtechnology (ICT) has on firms’ choices over organisational form. In particular,the decision over whether to produce in-house or outsource services,and the decision over the location of activity. ICT reduces the transactionand...

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Offshoring of Business Servicesand its Impact on the UK Economy

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel; Sako, Mari - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2004

This Briefing Note considers recent trends in specialisation, outsourcing and offshoring of businessservices … activities out of the back office of a factory, and into a specialised payroll office.Outsourcing is specialisation outside the … firm. This occurs when firms opt to ‘buy’ rather than ‘make’ inhouse.Outsourcing involves greater specialisation as firms …

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The Future of HR

Sako, Mari; Tierney, Abigail - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2007

established as a distinct organisational function.The principle reason for this is the impact of Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO … facilitating transformational HRO: they create a shared services centre(SSC) internally before outsourcing the ownership and …

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