Purpose – Offshore outsourcing offers competitive advantages when goods and services are produced economically and with … as a destination for offshore outsourcing of services and the challenges it faces in maintaining its leadership in this … area. The paper discusses the growth of services outsourcing and the economic and environmental forces that have …

economy. The fast growth of business services coincides with shifts from domestic production toward global outsourcing of …

away for decades: flawed offshoring decisions by the C‐suite. This paper aims to address this issue. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper defines seven lessons about the risks of outsourcing that executives need to learn from observing the problems … Boeing is having with the 787 plane. Findings – The paper finds that in analyzing offshoring, firms must get beyond …

the internal function is being examined for potential outsourcing. Given this new environment, Corporate Real Estate (CRE …) must adapt by focusing on its own core internal processes and outsourcing the non‐core work now being performed by internal …

With a few exceptions, the extant literature lacks substantive analysis of the ways downsizing and outsourcing impact … proposing a model of some of the conceptual linkages between current organizational downsizing and outsourcing initiatives and … effects of downsizing and outsourcing on organizational structure, as well as on buying centre structure, membership, and …

whether and when to outsource, and on the appropriate type of outsourcing arrangement. Design/methodology/approach – The paper …‐forward transactional “lift and shift” IT and BP outsourcing arrangements will yield cost savings and efficiency. When transfer of know … outsourcing is appropriate. Finally, when there are risks to expropriation of proprietary knowledge and capital invested …

cultural change on the evolution of offshoring of services and knowledge‐based activities. Design/methodology/approach – The … offshoring service and knowledge functions. It builds on a range of academic literatures within these core areas to derive a set … of propositions that offer insights into the manner in which the relative success and evolution of offshoring service and …

to the outsourcing of activities and the collateral relationships maintained between different hotels. Design … is also proposed to analyze this question. Findings – The development of relational capabilities in outsourcing is based … low strategic value; and relational and internal capabilities. The joint analysis of the outsourcing relationships and …