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Author: Kehal, Harbhajan
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2006-03-31
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1591408776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Mário Franco
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-07-07
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1839684690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutsourcing 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.
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9780374292782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.
Author: St.Amant, Kirk
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2009-07-31
Total Pages: 2511
ISBN-13: 1605667714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: I. Oshri
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-10-09
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0230251072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Lionel Fontagné
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 019877916X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn economic analysis of de-industrialization that considers the ongoing transformation of the industrial economies and the consequences for economic policy.
Author: Marcia Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974827018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Utkarsh Rai
Publisher: Happy About
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 160005062X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Shailendra C Jain Palvia
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 9813109327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere 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.
Author: Gary Gereffi
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9789290148050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is based on the 7th ILO Social Policy Lectures, which are endowed with the ILO's Nobel Peace Prize, held in Kingston, Jamaica in December 2005. In keeping with the topics covered in the lecture series, it uses the global value chains perspective to look at how offshore outsourcing has affected the quantity and quality of jobs in the global economy. While offering an overview of the contemporary global labour market, the book examines the issue of global consolidation and industrial upgrading and its promise and perils for development. It introduces an analytical framework for linking jobs in the industrial structures of both advanced and developing economies through the dynamics of global value chains. It reviews the strategies of leading firms global retailers, branded marketers, and brand-name manufacturers and considers the conceptualisation of jobs in the global economy not by their location in particular industries or countries, but by their role in global value chains.The author argues that, given the special features of global value chains, there is a need to reconsider the contemporary notions of global corporate social responsibility and private as well as public governance
