.../approach This paper discusses the arguments and counter‐arguments on outsourcing and also supply chain management as presented in the academic literature. Then it analyses some of the prevailing practices in supply chain, and uses concepts of power, team and opportunistic alliance to suggest that supply...

...M. Sadiq Sohail Purpose With competitive pressures increasing, outsourcing has become a common phenomenon in today's global economy. While there is growing evidence of organizations increasingly seeking to outsource their information technology (IT) functions, there have been few comprehensive...

.... Outsourcing Multinational companies Diversification International business United States of America Offshoring and offshore outsourcing have become hot subjects for firms from western countries in pursuit of various advantages and managerial objectives. RTTS (2005) provides a number of critical...

...Parimal Bhagat; Framarz Byramjee; Vincent Taiani Purpose This paper aims to provide a comprehensive framework of strategic value encompassing several critical dimensions of value creation/delivery process amidst transactions between organizations, which outsource their work to local/global service...

...Shuguang Liu; Jun Lin; Karen A. Hayes Purpose Recent trends of outsourcing in global competition make the firms vulnerable to operational risks. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how firms implement supply chain strategies to reduce operational risks, especially risk exposure involving...

...Bahman Bahrami Purpose Most debates concerning outsourcing offshore in recent years have been politically oriented and based on casual observations. The purpose of this paper is to provide a clear economic understanding of the subject and to present offshoring in the context of globalization...

...Maggie Nassif; William Roe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a model of possible solutions to potential employment issues arising from the outsourcing job trend. The case study offers university administrators and education policy makers the rationale to develop sequential, fully...

...B. Elango Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an outsourcing matrix and explains how outsourcing can be used to facilitate strategic innovation. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used in this study is of an explanatory case study. This paper uses secondary data as well...