competition. So, outsourcing creates prisoner's dilemma. We show that whether outsourcing is likely to reduce profit under more …Recent empirical evidences show negative relationship between outsourcing and profitability. This paper provides a … theoretical explanation for this phenomenon. In an oligopoly model, we show that firms earn lower profits in the outsourcing …

outsourcing. Shared services are a group of centralized resources in performing the same function and operation for few of the … business entities. Outsourcing is to engage with a third party in performing certain internal recurring function or operation … telecom operator in opting for outsourcing via managed services model …