PURPOSE - The issue of offshore outsourcing of healthcare services is a critical but little-examined problem in healthcare research. The purpose of this study is to contribute to filling this void. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A library-based study was carried out of the development of the Indian medical transcription offshoring industry. Findings- Cost-saving potential and the degree of outso...

ABSTRACT: The trend toward outsourcing manufacturing as well as product design and other service activities is well-established and apparently accelerating. Within this trend, however, there are examples that are not well-explained by existing theory. In particular, we observe firms outsourcing to suppliers that enjoy no external economies of scale, upstream concentration in ownership, or acces...

Division of labour has been recognised as a source of wealth to nations, by some experts without considering its effects on labour. However, some experts are of the view that increasing division of labour contracts the range of choice of ways of making a living for the working class. Thus the outcome of division of labour is the lowering of value of individual workers. Workers’ activities becom...

Contrary to the recent emphasis upon the "Information Highway", the situation for one of the most predestined service providers, the printing and publishing industry, remains quite unchanged. Despite the decrease in prices for hard-and software, most companies operate with increasing costs in the field of information technology.[1] The existence of antiquated and centralized information systems...

Within many industrial segments worldwide, a clear trend can be seen where companies outsource functional areas to specialised outside suppliers to support their internal core business areas. Typically, the companies begin by outsourcing functions of low strategic importance, e.g. cleaning, canteen working and administration. After having learnt from this experience they gradually move towards ...

It has been proven that modern information and logistic technologies are the most important resource of post-industrial society. was proved not every enterprise a possibility to ensure its activities using own capabilities, so possibilities outsourcing systems becoming especially relevant. General features services were determined. The them include mandatory existence interaction between suppli...

introduction: measuring the extent and nature of outsourcing in public hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences (tums), tehran, iran was the aim of this study. methods: in this cross-sectional applied study, we reviewed the relevant literature and interviewed with 5 experts to introduce various indices of measuring the extent and nature of outsourcing. we recommended 6 si...

Cloud sourcing consists of outsourcing data, services and infrastructure to cloud providers. Even when this outsourcing model brings advantages to cloud customers, new threats also arise as sensitive data and critical IT services are beyond customers’ control. When an organization considers moving to the cloud, IT decision makers must select a cloud provider and must decide which parts of the o...

Database outsourcing model is emerging as an important new trend beside the “application-as-aservice” model. In this model, since a service provider is typically not fully trusted, security and privacy of outsourced data are significant issues. These problems are referred to as data confidentiality, user privacy, data privacy, and query assurance. Among them, query assurance takes a crucial rol...