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The current financial crisis has greatly intensified international political process targeting the revival of the global economy. The Group of Twenty (G20) has taken over the role of a ‘premier’ economic forum in that respect, on the grounds that it brings together globally-important...
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This paper highlights entrepreneurial expansion into an emerging market. These markets are characterised as locations moving along a dynamic path from a closed economy with government control of economic policy to an open economy with reliance on market forces and the global economy. Building...
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The relation between worker autonomy, transformational leadership, and cultural intelligence has rapidly increased in importance in recent years (e.g., Earley and Ang, 2003; Harris et al., 2004; Hofstede and Hofstede, 2005; Mead, 2005; Peterson, 2004). The ability to work effectively with members of an...
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The past decade has seen explosive growth in offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to India by US and European companies. However, Australian companies have been slower to take advantage of this trend towards Globally Distributed Work (GDW). This appears surprising given sixteen years of...
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and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and …
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Outsourcing and offshoring are changing the nature of the firm, and producing unprecedented international relocation of … where and why?’ to explain the outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon. We present a novel modelling approach to represent a firm … outsourcing and offshoring to the organization of the firm, and offer propositions that frame our economic modelling approach. We …
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The past decade has seen explosive growth in offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to India by US and European firms. However, Australian firms have been slower to take advantage of this trend. Offshore outsourcing by Australian firms is an under-researched area with little in the way of...
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efficiencies is by offshoring selected business operations to overseas firms. Such offshoring, however, has generated public … concern and, in some cases, outrage. Angst against offshoring is based on many perceptions, including perceived job losses and … relations problem in justifying their offshoring activities. Yet, no systematic study has investigated why some consumers feel …
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This dissertation evaluates the economic and ethical considerations underlying the outsourcing of professional services such as finance and accounting. The dissertation is comprised of three separate, but related studies. The first study explores the adequacy of the disclosure rules recommended...
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