innovation processes. Yet, pharmaceutical firms must innovate to compete. Outsourcing knowledge intensive activities to knowledge …

season well underway in the U.S., the "outsourcing" of jobs from the developed to the developing world is again on the public … reaped by outsourcing firms to the outsourced employees themselves. This way the latter are directly benefited by the very …

services in India’s “offshore outsourcing” industry. The dissertation draws upon 101 semi-structured interviews with Indian …

, we examined the issues related to market reaction on IT outsourcing announcement and firm characteristics which induce … firms to outsource. We find that IT outsourcing has a strong positive effect on stock prices of announcing firms, especially … price reaction to the outsourcing announcements. We also find that firms with higher information asymmetry problems (firms …

The topic of outsourcing ranks at the top of business issues for a wide variety of companies (Wery, 2004; Ezrati, 2004 …, but it can be very frustrating if not done right†(Ting, 2004). The perceived benefits of outsourcing production to China … are tremendously enticing, but a lack of understanding of the total costs involved lures many companies into outsourcing …

Contractual helpdesk services, also known as call center outsourcing is a growing industry. Helpdesk solutions, which … service function. For smaller companies, outsourcing helpdesk services is becoming more and more popular given the technical … need for hiring additional staff. While the basic principles for negotiating an outsourcing contract apply, this paper …

Georgia counties’ public service outsourcing decisions, focusing on the effects of fiscal condition and political interests …

with globalization, outsourcing and modularity playan increasing role in auto design and manufacturing.The article … there a relationship betweenglobalization, modularization and outsourcing in the auto industry? 3) Can theseconcepts be used … globalization, outsourcing and modularization in the autoindustry. The article confirms that modularization a) is a vaguely defined …