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What is Offshoring

Chapter 1
Breaking Down Language and Cultural Barriers Through Contemporary Global Marketing Strategies
Process of productive and commercial expansion of an organization towards a territory outside the country of origin.
Published in Chapter:
An Entrepreneurship-Based Four-Helix Model to Overcome Language and Cultural Barriers
Jose Manuel Saiz-Alvarez (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6980-0.ch001
Abstract
Cultural and language barriers are being primarily conceived to protect firms and regions for external competitors. But this protection is novice for the business in the long term, as organizations lose competitivity and efficiency in internationalized markets. The purpose of this chapter is to propose a theoretical four-helix model focused on CSR with the final goal of reducing poverty and economic imbalances to transform societies and give their populations a greater quality of life. Transformation process accelerated with the use of ICTs in a global market.
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Chapter 89
The Role of Rhetoric in Localization and Offshoring
production process in which individuals in other nations perform work for an organization.
Published in Chapter: The Role of Rhetoric in Localization and Offshoring; From: Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends
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Chapter 16
The Role of Strategic Outsourcing in Global Business
The moving of various operations of a company to another country for reasons such as lower labor costs and more favorable economic conditions in that other country.
Published in Chapter: The Role of Strategic Outsourcing in Global Business; From: Handbook of Research on Managerial Strategies for Achieving Optimal Performance in Industrial Processes
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Chapter 66
Managing E-Collaboration Risks in Business Process Outsourcing
Offshore outsourcing or cross-national outsourcing, where the vendor and client operate in different countries.
Published in Chapter: Managing E-Collaboration Risks in Business Process Outsourcing; From: Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration
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Chapter 86
Offshoring IT
Offshore and its related outsourcing describes the practice of contracting to outside vendors in another country, in which the client company has no direct ownership. This low cost, expansion in number and increased capability of global vendors has many important benefits and risks associated with such practices.
Published in Chapter: Offshoring IT; From: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management
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Chapter 14
Social Responsibility and Sustainability of Fast Fashion Retail Companies in the Textile Sector
It is the practice of basing some of a company's processes overseas, so as to take advantage of lower costs.
Published in Chapter: Social Responsibility and Sustainability of Fast Fashion Retail Companies in the Textile Sector; From: Management and Inter/Intra Organizational Relationships in the Textile and Apparel Industry
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Chapter 9
Proposing an Integrative Model for Reshoring Antecedents
Regards to the practice of moving partially or totally production processes, employees, activities or certain manufacturing functions to other foreign countries, normally low cost, as a way to lower costs. For this study purposes, there were no need to differentiate the two common types of offshoring: offshoring by outsourcing or offshoring by internal production.
Published in Chapter: Proposing an Integrative Model for Reshoring Antecedents; From: Handbook of Research on Corporate Restructuring and Globalization
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Chapter 6
Digital Divide Redux: Why the Greatest Gap is Ideological
The practice of outsourcing work to another company or subsidiary overseas, usually to a cheaper labor market.
Published in Chapter: Digital Divide Redux: Why the Greatest Gap is Ideological; From: Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
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Chapter 9
Managing Electronic Supply Chains
Offshoring refers to obtaining services or products from another country, and is often what news articles are really referring to when they discuss outsourcing. While much offshoring involves outsourcing production to another company it can also refer to simply re-location certain aspects of a business to another country.
Published in Chapter: Managing Electronic Supply Chains; From: Managing Operations Throughout Global Supply Chains
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Chapter 13
Artificial Intelligence and Backshoring Strategies: A German-Italian Comparison
Relocation of production and other value chain activities to a foreign location. These strategies required production and manufacturing processes to be sliced up into smaller segments and to be coordinated by the lead firm.
Published in Chapter: Artificial Intelligence and Backshoring Strategies: A German-Italian Comparison; From: Handbook of Research on Applied AI for International Business and Marketing Applications
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Chapter 10
The Attitudes Towards Nearshoring vs. Offshoring on the IT Services Industry
Whenever a task or service that took place at the company's country is moved abroad.
Published in Chapter: The Attitudes Towards Nearshoring vs. Offshoring on the IT Services Industry; From: Handbook of Research on Corporate Restructuring and Globalization
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Chapter 60
An Overview of IT Outsourcing in Public-Sector Agencies
This is offshore outsourcing or cross-national outsourcing, where the vendor and client operate in different countries.
Published in Chapter: An Overview of IT Outsourcing in Public-Sector Agencies; From: Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology
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Chapter 15
A Systematic Review of Distributed Software Development: Problems and Solutions
Transference of an organizational function to another country, usually where human resources are cheaper.
Published in Chapter: A Systematic Review of Distributed Software Development: Problems and Solutions; From: Handbook of Research on Software Engineering and Productivity Technologies: Implications of Globalization
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Chapter 7
The More Aging, The More Managing?: Examples of Senior Entrepreneurs and Managerial Practices in Poland
Business relocation defined by the transfer of production or distribution systems to another country or region.
Published in Chapter: The More Aging, The More Managing?: Examples of Senior Entrepreneurs and Managerial Practices in Poland; From: Senior Entrepreneurship and Aging in Modern Business
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Chapter 476
Offshoring IT
Offshore and its related outsourcing describes the practice of contracting to outside vendors in another country, in which the client company has no direct ownership. This low cost, expansion in number and increased capability of global vendors has many important benefits and risks associated with such practices.
Published in Chapter: Offshoring IT; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 374
Offshore Remanufacturing
Getting work done in a different country.
Published in Chapter: Offshore Remanufacturing; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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