Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal: Volume 1 Issue 1
Table of contents
Global outsourcing of back office services: lessons, trends, and enduring challenges
Mary C. Lacity, Leslie P. Willcocks, Joseph W. RottmanTo identify key lessons, trends and enduring challenges with global outsourcing of back office services.
Emerging shared service organizations and the service‐oriented enterprise : Critical management issues
Marijn Janssen, Anton JohaService‐orientation enables new organizational forms and organization initiate shared service centers (SSCs) to become shared service organizations (SSOs) or service‐oriented…
Printing industry offshoring: perspectives from US based printers
Sandra Rothenberg, Ron Hira, Zhi TangThis paper aims to report on how US printers perceive offshoring trends in the printing industry, and explore how they are responding to its opportunities and challenges.
Offshore outsourcing of production: An exploratory study of process and effects in Danish companies
Dmitrij Slepniov, Brian Vejrum WaehrensThis paper is concerned with the realisation process of offshore outsourcing activities. The authors seek to understand the dynamic effects facing companies launching offshore…
Offshoring: secure or open to the praying mantis?
Beryl BurnsThe purpose of this paper is to investigate and gain knowledge into the reasons why a UK‐based wholesaling company outsourced its information technology and call centre services…
It is good to be green: Environmentally friendly credentials are influencing business outsourcing decisions
Douglas BrownThis paper aims to discuss how the influence of consumer and investor opinions for green corporate accountability and the creation of new government regulations in favor of…