The prospect of offshoring and outsourcing business processes has captured the imagination of CEOs everywhere. In the past five years, a rising number of companies in North America and Europe have experimented with this strategy, hoping to reduce costs and gain strategic advantage. But many businesses have had mixed results. According to several studies, half the organizations that have shifted...

• Differentiated effects of offshoring on employment across industries and professional groups. Offshoring activities are mainly driven by a cost reduction (labour saving) rationale. Negative found in the manufacturing industry among least qualified jobs. In high-technology industries, negative managers crafts. low-technology job losses manual workers. This paper assesses impact five European c...

Fe at u re s B IO T E C H F O C U S When considering China as a sourcing market from an outside perspective, it is difficult to get an idea of Chinese company variation regarding competence and quality; it all looks homogeneous. However, some US and European companies are more successful with their ‘China strategy’ outsourcing, offshoring or joint ventures (JVs) than others are. To better-under...

This empirical study discusses various aspects of global outsourcing (or offshoring) of IS projects. Using data from 57 paired onshoring and offshoring software projects, matched with respect to project size, beginning times and data quality and conducted in 17 nations over the period from 1991-2003, the research finds that offshored projects require more time to complete than do similar onshor...

Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage workers beyond organizational physical boundaries. A typology connects a variety of non-traditional work organizations made possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing, remote work, virtual companies, platforms. model illustrates how new serves as proximate cause for revision so...

Abstract The global manufacturing location is a dynamic result of competing relocation patterns (i.e., offshoring, re-shoring and re-offshoring). This paper proposes systematic approach to simultaneously measuring the magnitude those patterns, overcoming shortcomings existing measurements establishing data foundation for capturing process-specific, industry-specific country-specific features in...