Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic PerspectiveRelease Date: March, 2006. Copyright © 2006. 482 pages.
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In Stock. Have it as soon as May. 23 with express shipping*. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-875-8, ISBN13: 9781591408758, ISBN10: 159140875X, EISBN13: 9781591408772  | | TopDescriptionOutsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective covers various aspects of outsourcing and offshoring and the influences, challenges, and socio-economic impacts of this phenomenon. It provides information as to the economic impacts to developing, as well as developed, countries, using case studies to highlight pertinent points. Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective provides a compilation of the latest literature on outsourcing and offshoring, while discussing short-term and long-term implications. This book is useful to academicians, students, and business people who are considering outsourcing and moving offshore for suppliers and partners around the world. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors
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Glauco De Vita (Oxford Brookes University Business School, UK), Catherine L. Wang (Oxford Brookes University Business School, UK)
This chapter tracks the evolution of outsourcing theory and practice in order to develop a taxonomy of outsourcing generations. Our taxonomy identifies three generat...
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Subrata Chakrabarty (Texas A&M University, USA)
Many terminologies have grown out of the outsourcing and offshoring bandwagon. While the corporate world continues to experience these phenomena, the academic world...
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Ashima Goyal (Indira Ghandi Institute of Development Research, India)
This chapter shows that ICTs make possible a more inclusive global trade, since now labour intensive components of production can be unbundled and sent where it is c...
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Parthasarathi Banerjee (NISTADS, India)
This chapter investigates conditions when economic profit can be made from outsourcing. In order to have profit a firm must pursue strategies of cooperation while ou...
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Fjodor Ruzic (Institute for Informatics, Croatia)
In today’s dynamic e-business environment where fast time to market is imperative, where information and telecommunications technology is costly and changing rapidly...
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Smita Gupta (Technology Partners, Inc., USA), Narendra S. Chaudhari (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Offshore outsourcing is a term covering a range of information technology (IT) and business services delivered to companies in developed countries by IT personnel ba...
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Jurgis Samulevicius (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania), Val Samonis (Cornell University, USA)
A major phenomenon of globalization, outsourcing is a complex and controversial issue. It occurs when companies contract out activities previously performed in-house...
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Luke Ho (Staffordshire University, UK), Anthony S. Atkins (Staffordshire University, UK)
In recent years, outsourcing deals have increased in number and the strategic importance of the decision-making process has correspondingly increased. This chapter r...
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Alev M. Efendioglu (University of San Francisco, USA)
Recently, outsourcing/offshoring has gained significant exposure in the popular as well as academic publications, with authors arguing the many different facets of t...
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Siri Terjesen (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
This chapter reviews the outsourcing and offshoring of finance activities and the socioeconomic implications for home and host countries. Part one provides an overvi...
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Kirk St. Amant (Texas Tech University, USA)
This chapter examines the role of open source software (OSS) in international outsourcing practices that involve the transfer of knowledge work from one nation to an...
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Subrata Chakrabarty (Texas A&M University, USA)
The primary purpose of this chapter is to present descriptive real-life case studies of different offshore-outsourced custom software development projects (that the...
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Varadharajan Sridhar (Management Development Institute, India), Sangeeta S. Bharadwaj (Management Development Institute, India)
IT-enabled services (ITES) in India have registered tremendous growth in recent years. Availability of English speaking trained manpower and low wages are some of th...
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Nicholas B. Beaumont (Monash University, Australia)
This chapter notes and explains the increasing use of outsourcing and service level agreements (SLAs); proposes and describes an outsourcing methodology emphasising...
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Piyush Sharma (Nanyang Business School, Singapore), Rajiv Mathur (Percom Limited, India), Abhinav Dhawan (team4U Outsourced Staffing Services, India)
Offshore outsourcing is a fast-growing aspect of the world economy today and it has drawn attention from policy makers as well as public at large in many developed c...
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Michael Amberg (University of Erlangen, Germany), Martin Wiener (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Increasing competition in globalized markets drives IT offshoring worldwide. In the United States, the relocation of IT activities and processes to low-wage countrie...
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Felix R. Doldán Tie (University of A Coruna, Spain), Paula Luna Huertas (University of Sevilla, Spain), Francisco Jose Martínez Lopez (University of Huelva, Spain), Carlos Piñeiro Sanchez (University of A Coruña, Spain)
The practice of information systems/information technology (IS/IT) outsourcing is a major issue which has received much attention, as shown by the extensive literatu...
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Arjun K. Paiu (Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland), Subhajit Basu (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland)
The practice of information systems/information technology (IS/IT) outsourcing is a major issue which has received much attention, as shown by the extensive literatu...
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A. Hoecst (University of Portsmouth, UK), P. Trott (University of Portsmouth, UK)
In this chapter we argue that firms have responded to the intense pressure from markets and financial operators to reduce asset investments by outsourcing activities...
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Anne C. Rouse (Deakin Univeristy, Australia), Brian J. Corbitt (Shinawatra University, Thailand)
Much of the research that has been carried out into outsourcing is based on relatively successful case studies. Yet drawing inferences from case studies when those w...
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Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international academics and business practitioners, this volume assesses the socio-economic impacts of outsourcing and offshoring for both developing and developed countries.
– ~Book News, August 2006
TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyDr. Harbhajan S Kehal is a senior lecturer in Economics at the University of Western Sydney, Blacktown Campus, New South Wales, and Australia. Previously, he completed his Ph D at the University of Western Australia, Perth. His research interests center around foreign investment in developing countries, international trade, and economic relationships of Australia with Japan, South Asian Countries and South Africa. He is the Eminent Fellow of the American Biographical Association, is a member of a vast number of Economic Societies and is well known in the contemporary economic world for his leadership and active participation in international conferences.
Mr. Varinder Pal Singh achieved his degree of Masters in Commerce, specializing in Information Systems from the Faculty of Management, University of Western Sydney, Australia in 2002. Earlier he has passed his B.Sc (Hons.) and M.Sc (Hons.) in Biochemistry from Panjab University Chandigarh, India.
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