This paper examines various economic issues on offshoring (international outsourcing). It begins with a discussion of … offshoring certain stages of production and the advantages of specializing in some input production and engaging in input trade …. The paper then examines the recent trend in offshoring with special emphases on the rise of IT offshoring and the …

new products to attract those customers. Recently, more firms are using offshoring strategies (i.e. outsourcing of … increasingly offshoring operations to improve their cost structure as well as develop added capacity and improve their capabilities …. In this paper, I explore the development of offshoring as a strategy and elaborate how the buyers of offshoring services …

between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

In this paper, we review recent developments in the field of outsourcing and offshoring and the implications for … engineering management. We examine three aspects involved in outsourcing and offshoring, namely, sourcing models, coordination …, and value extracted from outsourcing projects. We conclude that additional research is needed on recent trends in …

Considerable attention has been focused on how the 'offshoring' practices of multinational firm's impact domestic … international outsourcing per se from the transfer of activities to foreign subsidiaries. Much of the existing evidence is limited …