Purpose – The paper discusses the reasons and approaches used at three health organisations in introducing outsourcing … outsourcing decisions made. The first health organisation operates in the rural sector; the second is a metropolitan network; and … one decision to outsource, producing the largest outsourcing contract in health in Australia. Furthermore, this situation …

A significant feature of business management in the 1990s has been the practice of outsourcing. Firms and public sector … outsourcing, not least when it has concerned high profile functions such as information technology. Part of the reason for this … shortcomings by presenting a model for effective risk management. The article also provides a case study – outsourcing at Hewlett …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the economic forces influencing the outsourcing process of property … of these economic forces on the outsourcing of property management services of the Hong Kong Housing Authority. Findings …/implications – The outsourcing strategy forms a conceptual baseline on which further research can build to test its significance in many …

-level imports by country of origin and distinguish betweenfirm-level outsourcing of nal versus intfirmediate goods. Results indicate … that, both industry-level import competition andfirm-level outsourcing to China reducefirm employment growth and induce … skill upgrading. In contrast, industry-level imports have no e ect on Belgianfirm survival, whilefirm-level outsourcing of …

-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results … indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and …-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival. In terms of skill upgrading, the effect of …