innovation processes. Yet, pharmaceutical firms must innovate to compete. Outsourcing knowledge intensive activities to knowledge …

outsourcing various ‘tasks’ to other sub-contracting regions, in order to utilize lower production cost there. This is modeled as … outsourcing opportunities for the firm are determined by economies ofdiversification. Trade is implicitly reflected as the …

season well underway in the U.S., the "outsourcing" of jobs from the developed to the developing world is again on the public … reaped by outsourcing firms to the outsourced employees themselves. This way the latter are directly benefited by the very …

services in India’s “offshore outsourcing” industry. The dissertation draws upon 101 semi-structured interviews with Indian …

outsourcing of labor services to specialistfirms that supply labor force teams. The implications of these trends for industries … force or outsourcing that task to a specialist firm. Within a labor market, firms competingfor labor from the same pools …

The phenomenon of outsourcing has engulfed the accounting industry and offers a wide range of services from bookkeeping … provided by outsourcing facilitators, the level of outsourcing in the accounting industry will increase to allow U.S. firms to …. This research uses a survey to collect primary data focusing on three areas, namely outsourcing drivers, concerns …

, we examined the issues related to market reaction on IT outsourcing announcement and firm characteristics which induce … firms to outsource. We find that IT outsourcing has a strong positive effect on stock prices of announcing firms, especially … price reaction to the outsourcing announcements. We also find that firms with higher information asymmetry problems (firms …

The topic of outsourcing ranks at the top of business issues for a wide variety of companies (Wery, 2004; Ezrati, 2004 …, but it can be very frustrating if not done right†(Ting, 2004). The perceived benefits of outsourcing production to China … are tremendously enticing, but a lack of understanding of the total costs involved lures many companies into outsourcing …

Contractual helpdesk services, also known as call center outsourcing is a growing industry. Helpdesk solutions, which … service function. For smaller companies, outsourcing helpdesk services is becoming more and more popular given the technical … need for hiring additional staff. While the basic principles for negotiating an outsourcing contract apply, this paper …