and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and … and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, BT is taking a strategic approach to outsourcing: this has resulted in a rapid … every outsourcing decision could have major security, legal, regulatory and contractual impacts. It is generally recognised …

Outsourcing and offshoring are changing the nature of the firm, and producing unprecedented international relocation of … where and why?’ to explain the outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon. We present a novel modelling approach to represent a firm … outsourcing and offshoring to the organization of the firm, and offer propositions that frame our economic modelling approach. We …

how the offshoring of business processes in services industries plays out in South and Southeast Asia, and how this latest … threefold. First of all, it aims to draw attention to the outcomes of the global trend of business processes offshoring in … manufacturing- and services-based waves of offshoring. The volume stands out from other books in the field in its exploration of the …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …