a r t i c l e i n f o It is shown that when wages are determined through collective bargaining, there is a non-monotonic relationship between the cost of offshoring and unemployment. Starting from a high cost of offshoring, a decrease in the cost of offshoring reduces unemployment first and then increases it. The non-monotonicity of unemployment in the cost of offshoring does not obtain if wage...

The paper proposes a systemic framework for assessment of Information Technology risks in offshore outsourcing projects based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The authors provide an analysis of current literature on IT risks in outsourcing, software project development and offshoring in order to illustrate the many facets of IT offshoring risks. The features of the framework and its elements ...

Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags stehen Funktionen und Aufgaben von ITBeratern bei IT-Offshoring oder Nearshoring-Projekten. Auf der Basis von Literatur werden zwei Ansätze der IT-Beratung in solchen Projekten entwickelt, die anhand von Interviews mit Beratern und Projektleitern empirisch gefüllt werden. Dies ermöglicht eine erste Systematisierung der Rolle von Beratern in ITOffshoreoder Nearshorepr...

Offshore labor outsourcing (“offshoring”) is a process in which US companies set up overseas production facilities, employing local workers, simultaneously curtailing their production on US soil and laying off part of their US workforce. This is followed by (is intertwined with) rehiring a part of the laid-off workers, to boost production for domestic consumption and/or export. We present a mat...

Gaining economic benefits from substantially lower labor costs has been reported as a major reason for information systems (IS) offshoring. However, many offshoring projects have failed to achieve expected cost savings, indicating that labor cost savings are offset by additional costs that arise in offshoring projects in certain situations. While previous research on IS offshoring has mostly fo...

Offshoring – the importing of intermediate materials and services – has expanded rapidly in most industrialized countries and its impact on the labor markets in these countries has been the source of enormous debate in both scholarly and popular circles. Since data on imported inputs at the sectoral level are not available for the US and the UK, empirical research has relied entirely on a proxy...

The labour market consequences of globalization in general, and offshoring in particular, have been hotly debated in recent public discussions and academia, in particular in industrialized countries. One of the reasons for this may be illustrated with reference to the World Investment Report 2004 (UNCTAD, 2004), which provides examples of recent offshoring cases in services industries in the Un...

Offshoring of services, either to a foreign affiliate or an external overseas supplier, and its effects on developed economies is at the heart of policy discussion. Whilst macro evidence and case studies are not lacking, few studies have used microeconomic data to analyse this issue and they have only looked at the manufacturing sector. This study is the first to use establishment level data fo...

We describe techniques and lessons learned from using agile methodologies with distributed teams, specifically outsourced and offshore development teams. Such teams often need to contend with multiple organizational boundaries, differences in time zone, language, and culture, and other communication challenges. First, we present concepts and issues in outsourcing and offshoring. Second, we desc...

Offshore outsourcing of services accelerated at the end of 1990s in developed countries. In recent years, developing countries have also offshored services, not only to developed countries but also to other developing countries. Yet, to date little attention has been paid to the emergence of this reverse offshoring. The focus of this research is on the determinants of reverse offshoring of serv...