The purpose of this study was to identify and understand the process and factors which influence the outsourcing decision in context of manufacturing firm in a developing country like Bangladesh. The data was collected through questionnaires from the manufacturing firms in Bangladesh. The...

Offshore outsourcing research is gaining momentum in all stream of Management science. Majority of previous research dealt with national level macro-issues, the new research trend has started to investigate firm level economic and strategic benefits or competitiveness of offshore outsourcing....

The offshore-outsourcing choice is viewed as a source of factory closures and job losses in many developed countries including Canada. The current exploratory paper using qualitative case study methods presents experiences from four Canadian companies based in the province of Quebec. It shows...

The creation of global value chains (GVCs) has changed the dominant manufacturing paradigm, shifting focus away from producing complete goods and toward manufacturing activities or tasks that are organized along trans-border value chains called global production networks (GPNs). This paper...