Logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. Through this approach, companies have been able to improve logistics performance. However, several studies point out severe problems with outcome and it is even claimed that in some cases “logistics outsourcing has become a source of corporate failure and disappointment. This study examines the impact of i...

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...

The growth of outsourcing has led outsourcing strategies to become an increasingly important component of firm success (Gottfredson et al., 2005). While the purported goal of outsourcing in supply chains is to derive a competitive advantage, it is not clear whether the outsourcing decisions of firms are always strategically aligned with their overall competitive strategy. In this paper we evalu...

This explorative study investigates how bureaucratic public sector client organizations deal with information technology (ITO) and business process (BPO) outsourcing in terms of internal management. Through contextual and micro-level analyses, the research found that client organizations appear to work at transforming outsourcing-related strategy, contract structure, and their own organizations...

IT-enabled business process onshore outsourcing (BPOnO) in relationship to the community banking industry has grown steadily for the past several years. Business processing onshore outsourcing in comparison to offshore outsourcing uses firms within a country's own geographic boundaries to address back-end processes such as accounting, payroll, and customer support. Many banks are evaluating the...

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Information Technology (IT) outsourcing continues to experience phenomenal growth, with an estimated market size of over $70 billion in 1998. Its adoption by some of the largest international corporations has seen outsourcing become considered a key component of the Information Management agenda. Critical to this agenda is the formulation of comprehensive contracts. For this, legal experts and/...

There is now substantial evidence that locational and agglomeration influences can have a significant positive effect on innovation performance. Networking and boundary-spanning activities are also increasingly recognised as important contributors to innovation success. This paper attempts to discover whether these factors are linked: in particular, is there any link between plant location, agg...

Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers’ employment histories, we investigate how workers’ labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for worker flows from employment to another job, to unemployment, and to nonparticipation. Outsourcing is fou...

Logistics outsourcing is a mode of operation for companies in global supply chains that have been increasingly devoting more attention to their core activities. This study examines the state-of-the-art logistics Slovenian manufacturing industry. Additionally, authors benchmark findings against similar from 2013. Finally, this provides discussion logistics-outsourcing specifics some countries wi...