vendor or developer. Ten years ago outsourcing vendors have focused mainly on data centers and legacy applications. In the … last decade, outsourcing has become an efficient method to cut costs and improve the performance of a information system … be seen the trend of IT outsourcing market development, in particular oriented to the developing countries, such as those …

-regulated management practices such as HRM outsourcing, is sustained by foreign multinationals. The findings of the 2000 CRANET survey are …This paper examines the effect of company internationalisation on the practice of outsourcing HRM functions in Greece …. It holds the assumption that HRM outsourcing is perceived as an innovative practice and that foreign multinationals (MNCs …

outsourcing. As a result it appears that effectively in the future both India and US may actually be competitors in the production …

IS discipline has witnessed significant growth in research on IT in- and out-sourcing. Economic theories inform a large … been obtained. This is done through a review of selected body of outsourcing literature. There is evidence of the impacts … of production costs on outsourcing decisions, while findings with regard to transaction costs are inconclusive. In order …

but cannot write or enforce a complete contract, the standard hold-up problem of underinvestment arises. We show that this … current trends toward increased foreign outsourcing and intra-firm trade …

of production with new survey data of Austrian and German firms investing in Eastern Europe. I show estimates of the … of intrafirm imports from that region. These factors also favor outsourcing over offshoring. In contrast, low … alternative suppliers in Eastern Europe) favor offshoring over outsourcing. Tax holidays granted by host countries in Eastern …

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 … equilibrium compared to the situation where neither firm does outsourcing, and it holds irrespective of the intensity of …