Offshore outsourcing of administrative and technical services has become a mainstream business practice. Increasing … commoditization of business services and growing client experience with outsourcing have created a range of competitive service … delivery options for client firms. Yet, data from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN) suggests that, despite increasing …

I study the interaction between optimal procurement and outsourcing of production in small industries. First, two … sellers decide about outsourcing. By outsourcing, a seller loses information about the costs of producing to his supplier … suppliers. The focal equilibrium might exhibit bilateral outsourcing although outsourcing is modeled to have no direct positive …