For many years, services attracted most of the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern European countries. Recently, a distinctive type of business services, i.e., advanced business services (ABS), has become the focal point in FDI in the region. This paper is aimed at defining...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white-collar jobs, has become one of the major developments in the operations of multinational corporations (MNCs). However, a specific theoretical approach to this phenomenon has not been...

This is one of few books in the market dealing with offshoring of professional services, the dynamic phenomenon of high relevance in the global economy. The unique feature of the book is merging economic and business approaches to offshoring of professional services, so called offshoring of...