introduction: hospitals are required to focus on core activities which are inevitable affair. the sensitivity of the monitoring and supervision mechanism as well as preserving and enhancing the quality of outsourced services prevent new problems in this area. methods: this was a descriptive and applied study which was done by case study (pretest-posttest) method. outsourcing nursing services of...

Economists, including Paul Samuelson and Jagdish Bhagwati, vigorously debate whether offshore outsourcing in high-tech industries helps or harms the U.S. economy. The main issue is whether insourcing countries, such as China or India, will catch up with and eventually outcompete the U.S. Moreover, the dearth of offshore outsourcing data has hindered the study of the impact of offshore outsourci...

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...

Using a qualitative research method, this work investigates risks associated with IT outsourcing and aspects of managing outsourcing risks in the context of Higher Learning Institutes (HLI) in Ethiopia. Primary data is collected through interviews conducted with various stakeholders in the IT outsourcing process including a select set of executives, committee members, domain experts and users. ...

Database outsourcing is a noteworthy solution to improve quality of services while reducing data management costs. When data is stored and processed out of the territory of its owner, security becomes the first concern. Confidentiality of the outsourced data, correctness assurance of query results, and preserving users' access privacy are the primary requirements of secure data outsourcing. Nev...

Recent case study research has examined the role of organization control as a critical component of outsourcing performance (Kang et al. 2012a. Journal of Business Research 65, 1195–1201). In contrast to case study methodology, this paper aims to empirically examine the relationships among outsourcing strategies and organizational control in the Chinese context and refine the theoretical and ma...

Though experiencing remarkable growth, many outsourcing deals failed or suffered from serious problems. The literature has explored either the relationship or contract issues in IT outsourcing success, however, few efforts have been paid to investigate the effects of both relationship and contract on IT outsourcing success from a holistic view. This study develops a conceptual model and empiric...

The objective of this empirical study was to explore outsourcing in software testing and shape hypotheses that explain the association between outsourcing and knowledge management. First, a survey of testing practices was conducted and 26 organizational units (OUs) were interviewed. From this sample, five OUs were further selected for an in-depth case study. The study used qualitative grounded ...

In Australia, popular discussion of the growing market in outsourcing information technology (IT) has been spurred by decisions of several large companies and the Australian government to outsource IT operations, but there has been little academic research into outsourcing in Australia. This chapter reports research into Australian IT outsourcing based on data collected in 1999. The research ob...

While a growing number of organisations are outsourcing their logistics function, few comprehensive studies on outsourcing of logistics in the Middle Eastern region have been undertaken. An empirical research is used to determine issues relating to the extent, commitment, and organizational impact of outsourcing in Saudi Arabia. Results based on the analysis of data indicate that most of the or...