Background: Outsourcing is considered as one of the tools for organizational development and promotion of productivity by managers. In recent years, outsourcing of healthcare services has become significant. The aim of this study was to identify the most important factors influencing the decision making of outsourcing healthcare services.    Methods: This study is a combined study. F...

We analyze the business process offshore/outsourcing trend based on the theoretical framework of transaction cost economics and resource-based view. We propose a two-dimensional taxonomy of different sourcing arrangements of business processes and services. Along the outsourcing/vertical integration dimension, we emphasize the effect of the characteristics of business processes such as asset sp...

This paper explores the management of expertise in offshore outsourcing projects. While the study of expertise development and coordination gained some attention in recent years, much of this research has been on co-located teams. Little is known about the way expertise is managed in distributed contexts and the challenges distributed teams face when attempting to develop and share expertise. T...

Based on cost savings and efficiency gains in past business process outsourcing (BPO) projects, firms increasingly consider outsourcing knowledge-intensive and strategically oriented business processes. However, the success of these strategic BPO projects entails strong commitment from both the client and the service provider to leverage interfirm resources and engage in close collaboration to ...

the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...

Background and Objectives: Outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. Despite, the concept is relatively new in Iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. Thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...