Outsourcing : organised money and disabled government -- Outsourcing, blame-shifting and major fiascos -- Unjustifiable profit-taking on mundane contracts -- Undisciplined outsourcing conglomerates -- Outsourcing specialists and the gaming of limited liability

Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this book offers analysis of the pressures created by the capital bull market of the 1990s & the bear market of more recent times, showing how management action & calculation in publicly quoted corporations has been...