Future Bangalores ? The increasing role of Central and Eastern Europe in offshoring services

GÁL Z. Future Bangalores? The increasing role of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in offshoring services, Regional Studies. The paper gives an overview of offshoring services into Central and Eastern Europe. Many Eastern European countries invigorated by EU enlargement became important locations for offshore service centres. Building on the region‘s nearshoring advantages such as geographical-cultural proximity and on its multilingual graduate supply, CEE is likely to utilise more value added and quality-driven services. Trade statistics support the assumption that an expanding export in other business and ICT services has been associated with offshoring services in the NMS. Empirical findings suggest that offshoring services have a significant impact on their locations. The paper reveals the role of offshoring activities in the metropolitan transformation and their growing significance in local and regional development.