The phenomenon of offshoring, that is, the outsourcing of highly- qualified services into low wage countries was until … the controversial issue of the advantageousness of offshoring. The trend, which has been enforced by numerous consultants … validity. The following paper deals with the advantageousness of offshoring in the case of IT services. In order to detach …

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 … visits some issues concerning outsourcing in order to provide nuance to some of the rhetoric. In particular, we discuss the …

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 …