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Summary The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and production, both in terms of the scale of events and in terms of their qualitative nature. Intriguing questions have been thrown up concerning the labor market impact of these...
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Offshoring, the process of relocating discrete business functions or processes to foreign locations, is rapidly … expanding. Offshoring integrally links real estate decisions to business strategy, offering corporate real estate (CRE … leadership requires knowledge of the issues, opportunities, challenges and tactics involved in the offshoring process. This paper …
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Purpose Servitization increases the uncertainty exposure of provider firms due to the operational differences between services and production which is further increased when operations are set in triads. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the uncertainty exposure in servitized triads and...
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outsourcing model of Baron and Kreps (1999) by including the HR offshoring phenomenon and a dynamic perspective. Design …Purpose Offshoring has been studied widely in the literature on strategic management and international business …. However, apart from its consideration as an administrative activity, scant attention has been paid to the offshoring of the …
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.g. outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, reshoring), acknowledging that these decisions are embedded in the same context – firms …Purpose The last decades have seen manufacturing and services offshoring on the rise, often motivated by low prices and … paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts out by delimiting outsourcing/insourcing and …
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Purpose – Service outsourcing/offshoring represents an increasing phenomenon. Several factors (e.g. cost reduction …. Knowledge and data protection constitutes one of the most relevant issues in service outsourcing/offshoring because it can … the main risks of offshoring and outsourcing projects. Design/methodology/approach – Building on the model developed by …
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. Offshoring and outsourcing of manufacturing activities from Western locations to Eastern Europe and the Far East are used to …/methodology/approach – The paper is based on in‐depth literature reviews and explorative case studies – two offshoring and two outsourcing … framework. Data have been collected through in‐depth interviews with persons responsible for the offshoring and outsourcing …
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offshoring context is influenced by organizational culture.  …
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Purpose – Although the literature on offshoring is vast, very scarce research has been undertaken to understand the … providers’ perspective of offshoring. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap, aiming to assess the expectations of … to select seven Portuguese offshoring providers. Data collected were then coded and analysed. Findings – In total, three …
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Purpose – Prior research has determined that consumers are opposed to services offshoring. The purpose of this paper is … general, may be opposed to services offshoring, they will “defect” or show less loyalty to the domestic service provider when … results signify that while customers, in general, may be opposed to services offshoring, they will “defect” or show less …
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