Offshore outsourcing of business functions is widely practiced by firms in advanced economies. Although scholars have … concerns inadequate simultaneous attention to clients and providers - the key actors in offshore outsourcing. With an aim to … organizational factors that coevolve to enable engagement of clients and providers in offshore outsourcing. Our conceptualization …

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …