A captive centre is a business unit that is owned and provides services to the parent firm from an offshore location. In this paper we seek to apply a historical perspective in order to understand what factors shaped its development path. In particular we are interested to document and explain...

In 2003, Goldman Sachs published a report on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) region: these four countries would be larger than the G6 economics within 40 years. This book focuses on the technology and technology-enabled services that underpin this social and economic revolution