Outsourcing is a practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring working with outside suppliers … rather than performing them internally. Cutting costs are presented as a key benefit in hiring an outsourcing service …-core activities. The study presented here is an early stage of research to be developed on outsourcing in Portugal and its position in …

Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually … innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …

development planning with a wide range of decentralization programs. The reforms gave greater authority, political power, and …, unlike in many developing and transition countries, the decentralization program in Indonesia has not caused major political … or economic problems. However, the decentralization program was ill prepared and not carried out in a logical order for …