Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective


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"This book discusses the economic impacts of outsourcing and off shoring to the developing countries and developed countries and the short term and long term implications"--Provided by publisher.




Outsourcing and Offshoring


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Outsourcing and offshoring are typically viewed as phenomena allowing competitive advantages for organizations, but some studies have not included the risks, benefits, and challenges of these types of strategies. As such, this book fills this gap by combining several studies from different perspectives. The chapters follow several approaches and applications that researchers explore in different contexts. This book adds to the body of knowledge in outsourcing and offshoring areas and shows how these strategies can stimulate organizations’ development in various countries and regions worldwide.




The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]


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Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.




IT Outsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


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"This book covers a wide range of topics involved in the outsourcing of information technology through state-of-the-art collaborations of international field experts"--Provided by publisher.




The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring


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This book offers a broad perspective on issues relating to the sourcing of systems and business processes in a national and global context, examining the client's and the vendor's involvement in sourcing relationships by putting the emphasis on the capabilities that each side should develop as a result of their interactions with each other.




The Factory-free Economy


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An economic analysis of de-industrialization that considers the ongoing transformation of the industrial economies and the consequences for economic policy.




Offshore Outsourcing


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Offshoring Secrets


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In this book, years of experiences and interactions with industry experts are drawn upon to suggest ways to set up and run an India operation. The author shares solutions to numerous day-to-day problems that managers in the parent offices face and describes the issues faced by managers in India, and their frustrations in dealing with their counterparts in the parent company.




Global Sourcing Of Services: Strategies, Issues And Challenges


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There are three stages to outsourcing: The first occurred at the dawn of industrial era in the 19th century, where mass production for consumption by many, became the norm and simple domestic means could not meet such demands. With the cost of labor soaring in developed countries, manufacturing of products started moving to countries like China to take advantage of labor arbitrage in the 1900s. This is the second stage of outsourcing. This book addresses issues and challenges in the third stage of outsourcing whose focus is on movement of services at electronic speed, utilizing the Internet platform.The book includes short essay questions, multiple choice questions, mini-cases at the end of most chapters and glossary of terms. It can also serve as a good reference book for practitioners.




Working Lives and In-house Outsourcing


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This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies institute outsourcing in their organization. Drawing on qualitative data, it examines the ways in which internal outsourcing in the IT and HR professions negatively affects workers, their work conditions, and working relationships.