Global outsourcing strategies : an international reference on effective outsourcing relationships /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2006. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6827205 |
Table of Contents:
- About the editors
- About the contributors
- Part One. The Nature of Outsourcing and Its Present State
- The outsourcing decision
- A strategic framework
- Research on outsourcing
- Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence
- Outsourcing
- Drivers and future developments
- The evolution of outsourcing
- Global IT sourcing
- Analysis, developments and best practice considerations
- Part Two. The Impact of Outsourcing on Organizational Structures
- Global technology transfer
- Personal experience from GM and the private sector
- The relationship between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, increased efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing
- Outsourcing
- The employee perspective
- Outsourcing for a competitive advantage
- The human resource dimensions
- Part Three. The Long-term Effects of Outsourcing as an Organization-Driven Process
- Outsourcing activities in the world economy
- SMEs' ability to go global
- The relevance of aggregation and critical e-applications in outsourcing
- The economic rationale and labour market effects of outsourcing
- A survey
- Transforming organizations
- An analysis of outsourcing and its effects on trade unions
- The materiality of outsourcing
- Part Four. Outsourcing
- Legal Issues, Control and Relationships
- Legal aspects of outsourcing
- An overall perspective
- Risk mitigation and outsourcing
- Alternative models for managing supply risk
- Use of service credits to mediate performance in an outsourcing agreement
- Service level agreements and limitations of liability
- Critical requirements for building and sustaining a successful outsourcing relationship
- Outsourcing
- Ethical supply chain issues
- Part Five. The Practical Side of Outsourcing
- The Case Study Approach
- Clean skin at the Kinleith Mill
- Key questions to ask when contracting out government services
- An application to orderly services
- Offshoring and the SME
- Index
