. However, the mechanism is imperfect because LPs can either use many FOFs and risk coordination problems among them or few FOFs … and risk getting held up. Fourth, FOFs are used by LPs with weaker governance structures. Fifth, there is some evidence …

order to support our main argument – that outsourcing has been going on for a while and that the risk to US job growth due …The debate on outsourcing of skilled jobs to India has recently picked up steam and has become a hot election …-year issue. Bills put forth in almost twenty five states have provisions that seek to limit the outsourcing trend. This paper …

Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to refer to … argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services … the recent “outsourcing” debate. Under this definition, the total number of the U.S. jobs outsourced annually is minuscule …

Outsourcing grew rapidly during the 1990s and has now become an accepted dimension of corporate strategy. While … outsourcing continues to grow in importance, the nature and focus of outsourcing is evolving. Historically, most outsourcing took … services, outsourcing is becoming increasingly cross- national and global. The growth of international outsourcing has …