Highlighted are two reasons for outsourcing: cost and focus on the core competencies of the enterprise. Surveying U.S., U.K., and Continental Europe companies concerning current and future outsourcing trends positions outsourcing as a prominent strategic lever. Achieving “best-of-breed” practice is predicted to occur through new technology. Also, human resources and IT outsourcing will become m...

To gain competitive advantage, organisations are considering information technology (IT) outsourcing as a strategic option by concentrating on their core operations and by reducing their operating costs. Many organisations are offering outsourcing services from various parts of the world. There are certain risks factors which IT outsourcing service providers come across while managing their ser...

in today’s business environment, firms in pursuing the goal of efficiency, outsource many necessary, but non-core operations. the majority of pervious outsourcing studies have focused on the costs and benefits analysis, while this research work examines a behavioral approach in outsourcing decisions. this study examines the effects of perceived trust on loyalty through mediatory role of relatio...

Offshore outsourcing has become a multi-billion dollar industry with global dominance. This editorial provides an overview of offshore outsourcing and identifies factors affecting success of offshore outsourcing in low-income countries.

Nowadays, firm have realized the importance of information technology as an essential tool for the success of business. Accessing the applicability of information technology might be the main expectation of the firm for outsourcing. By outsourcing, firms can have access to advanced technologies and use external sources for their goal. The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of interactio...

Supply Chain Forum An International Journal Vol. 3 N°2 2002 www.supplychain-forum.com Outsourcing has been a significant industry trend over the past decade. However, some scholars have stressed that companies may have gone too far by outsourcing core, as well as non-core competencies. Using a survey of large U.S. corporations our study documents the current status of outsourcing, differentiati...

This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for manual workers in Germany during the 1990s. In contrast to previous empirical work, we combine trade and input output data to disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately and differentiate between the effects of outsourcing in different geographic regions. Accounting for endo...

Companies who sought outsourcing as a panacea to cost pressures and global demand have begun to re-evaluate their outsourcing strategies in light of increased fuel and distribution costs, quality problems, security risks and current economic conditions. This concept paper reviews the literature on reversing supply chain outsourcing and outlines the basis of a model for reshaping outsourcing str...

The importance of managing logistics outsourcing risk has been realized by both scholars and managers. Thus, after we study the basic flow for CBR method, and analyze the connotation, characteristics and classification of logistics outsourcing risk, we construct a logistics outsourcing risk assessment model by way of Cased-Based Reasoning method to assess logistics outsourcing risk, and then di...

This paper reports the results of a study of three successive IT outsourcing contracts at British Petroleum (BP). We offer an operational definition of IT outsourcing risk and use it to assess the risk exposure associated with each contract. We then examine how the management at BP dealt with outsourcing risk. Our results show that careful and deliberate risk management can substantially attenu...