Many Central and Eastern European countries invigorated by EU enlargement became important locations for offshored service centres. Building on the region's nearshoring advantages such as geographical-cultural proximity and on its multilingual graduate supply, CEE is likely to utilise more value...

The paper discusses how the second global shift in business services provision and corporate restructuring open up new offshoring opportunities into CEE. It explores three issues: First, it builds upon the theoretical framework of the 'new paradigm of globalization, which considers offshoring as...