Overcoming Talent Shortage through Impact Sourcing

A Global Talent Shortage: Myth or Reality?

Globally, employers within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields desire to hire skilled talent, but have difficulty locating and attracting it. In short, they complain of a talent shortage. But is this assessment accurate? Do the world’s labor markets suffer from a shortage of STEM skills or rather a skill mismatch, with a shortage in specific regions while other r...

Overcoming the 99mTc shortage: are options being overlooked?

Sourcing through Auctions and Audits

Buyers often find that obtaining complete information about suppliers is costly. In such scenarios, there is a trade-off between the costs of obtaining information and the benefits that accrue to the owners of such information. There are also various ways in which the missing information can be obtained or inferred. In this paper, we compare the efficiency of obtaining information via the class...

Overcoming Procrastination through Planning

Have you ever purposefully delayed or postponed a goal-directed action (for example, writing an essay or filling out tax forms) despite strong intentions to achieve the goal and suffident opportunities to pursue it7 If so, then you are in good company: so has a large percentage of the general (15 to 20 percent) 1 and the academic (80 to 85 percent of American college students) population. 2 In ...

Offshoring and the Global Sourcing of Talent: Understanding the New Frontier of Internationalization

Companies in high-cost developed economies are increasingly migrating whitecollar activities at offshore low-wage locations. Recent researches confirm that firms are progressively sourcing abroad higher-skilled technical, engineering and scientific jobs. The purpose of this study is to investigate why and how companies currently offshore product development activities. We develop hypotheses on ...