Outsourcing is a management approach by which an organization delegates some non‐core functions to specialized and … efficient service providers. In the era of “global market” and “e‐economy”, outsourcing is one of the main pillars of the new … way to conceive the relationships among companies. Despite outsourcing large diffusion, huge business cases and big deals …

Discusses the application service provider (ASP) model, which is emerging as a new form of application outsourcing. At … research needs to be carried out to refine this framework and also to find the relevance of traditional outsourcing literature … to this new form of outsourcing.  …

Purpose – With an increase in global outsourcing, there is a need for risk mitigation strategies for outsourcing … capabilities of service providers. Also, the move towards knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services is an area where the risks … of the knowledge dimension and outsourcing project success through a set of propositions. It proposes a formal process of …

Purpose – The research on effects of outsourcing tends to focus on financial effects and effects at a country level …. These are not the only consequences of outsourcing, though. When firms outsource functions previously performed in …‐financial consequences are poorly addressed in the literature, even though they may explain financial effects of outsourcing. Therefore, the …

Purpose – Over the last two decades, a large number of studies have been conducted in the field of outsourcing third … outsourced by Australian firms. Specifically, it investigates the motivation for outsourcing, the average length of 3PL contracts …, types of logistics services used and the impact of the use of outsourcing logistics services on customer satisfaction …

Purpose – The information technology (IT) industry has grown owing to the increase in IT outsourcing prompted by the … acceptable to vendors along with researching on the reasons behind that. The outsourcing engagement is also based on a set of … processes to be used during the contract time and that is known as the Outsourcing Model (OM) being used. This research also …

fragmented, as some hospitals are having their own in-house waste treatment facilities and others are outsourcing the process to … factors.” “Outsourcing” strategic option (0.61) got the higher desirability index than “in-house treatment” (0.39). Research … the alternative, whether they should treat the infectious waste in-house or they should go for outsourcing. Originality …

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the impact of corporate offshoring moves on the economic and psychological … sciences to explore the phenomena of social contracts and offshoring. Especially deploying the exit‐voice theory of Alfred … Hirschman, it is argued here that offshoring decreases the regenerative power promised both by exit and voice in helping …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an outsourcing matrix and explains how outsourcing can be used to …/value – This paper offers practicing managers a framework for using outsourcing as a means to compete effectively. Importantly …, compared to the outsourcing literature's traditional focus on large firms, this paper is one of the few which takes the …

from the outsourcing job trend. The case study offers university administrators and education policy makers the rationale … competitive in a global work force. Design/methodology/approach – The objective is achieved through a case study of an outsourcing … fluidity of the outsourcing situation, constant updating of data are required. Consulting the most recent statistics and …