Drawing on an original survey, we discuss the trends and challenges posed by the outsourcing and offshoring of business … compete for, activities and skills across a range of sectors. -- Outsourcing ; offshoring ; knowledge intensive business … services. We document and analyse the increasing offshoring of business services (administrative services, call centres, IT …

This book collects and reports on the results of a study conducted on the Chinese Software and Services Outsourcing …

Drawing on an original survey, we discuss the trends and challenges posed by the outsourcing and offshoring of business … services. We document and analyse the increasing offshoring of business services (administrative services, call centres, IT … outsourcing decisions, globalisation of high value adding activities, such as product development and innovation, raising issues …

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …