Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal: Volume 6 Issue 2

Production outsourcing offshore in the New Zealand printing, publishing and packaging industries

Hayden Skiffington, Michèle E.M. Akoorie, Paresha Sinha, Glyndwr Jones

The study aims to investigate the production offshore outsourcing practices of SMEs in the New Zealand printing, publishing and packaging industries. It identifies the techniques…

Strategic outsourcing: a lean tool of healthcare supply chain management

Cristina Machado Guimarães, José Crespo de Carvalho

Considering lean thinking inside and beyond the organisation's boundaries, in the extended supply chain, this paper aims to fill a literature gap clearly stating some outsourcing…

Legal process outsourcing: the provider landscape

Mary C. Lacity, Leslie P. Willcocks

Nearly all legal firms and in‐house counsels will have to consider the opportunities and risks afforded by the rapidly changing legal process outsourcing (LPO) market, estimated…

Cloud sourcing and innovation: slow train coming?: A composite research study

Leslie P. Willcocks, Will Venters, Edgar A. Whitley

Although cloud computing has been heralded as driving the innovation agenda, there is growing evidence that cloud computing is actually a “slow train coming”. The purpose of this…