While the Latin American outsourcing and offshoring industry is largely dominated and overshadowed by Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, Colombia is emerging as a major challenger. Global and local companies are expanding their operations to mid-sized cities in the country. There is also some...

Micro and macro level impacts of offshore outsourcing are far from clear. Thus there are some well-founded rationales for and against offshore outsourcing as well as a number of misinformed and ill guided viewpoints. Using institutional theory as a lens, this paper analyzes the drivers of...

Although offshore BPO has been a focus of considerable attention in popular press, there is a serious dearth of academic research on this area. This paper first establishes that offshore BPO functions in the same manner as osmosis. We then draw upon constructs and concepts in osmosis to develop...

Purpose – The issue of offshore outsourcing of healthcare services is a critical but little‐examined problem in healthcare research. The purpose of this study is to contribute to filling this void. Design/methodology/approach – A library‐based study was carried out of the development of...

This paper constructs a dynamic scale-free North-South model of trade with endogenous innovation. In the North two types of R&D races take place simultaneously within each industry. One is local-sourcing-targeted R&D race, which results in the winner firm manufacturing in the North. The other is...

In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of firms shifting stages of their production processes overseas. In this paper we investigate whether firms outsource the dirtier stages of production to minimise domestic environmental regulation costs - a process broadly...