...Paresha Sinha; Michèle E.M. Akoorie; Qiang Ding; Qian Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on the motivations for offshore outsourcing encountered by manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and their suppliers in China. The paper explores the motivations and challenges...

...Mary Lacity; Joseph Rottman; Shaji Khan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide industry insights on the business models, practices, and capabilities that suppliers need to deliver cost‐effective information technology (IT) outsourcing services from rural locations within the USA. As rural...

...Xiaohong Li; Ian Barnes Purpose This paper aims to identify proactive supply risk management methods which can be used to reduce or remove risk sources during the supplier selection process, in the context of Western‐based manufacturing companies that source from emerging markets. Design...