Outsourcing HR Functions– An Explanatory Approach to Firms’ (Non-Existent)Demand for Personnel Services

This paper develops an explanatory approach to the outsourcing of Human Resource (HR)functions and the resulting demand for personnel services by companies (e.g., interimmanagement, outplacement services, consulting in the field of HR management). Startingfrom the deficits of approaches that currently dominate the outsourcing debate (costaccounting approach, transaction cost approach, resource-based view of the firm), a modifiedand expanded explanation of outsourcing HR management/functions is presented.[...]

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Authors:	Alewell, Dorothea ; Bähring, Katrin ; Canis, Anne ; Hauff, Sven ; Thommes, Kirsten
Institutions:	Sonderforschungsbereich Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen nach dem Systemumbruch - Diskontinuität, Tradition und Strukturbildung <Jena>
Subject:	Dienstleistung \| services management \| Outsourcing \| Humankapital

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1. Introduction: State of research related to HR outsourcing
2. Overview: Modules of the explanatory approach to HR outsourcing decisions
3. Triggers of the make-or-buy decision
4. The make-or-buy decision: Generation of the set of perceived alternatives
5. Expected effects of in-house production and external deployment in HRM
6. Factors influencing the expected effects of the institutional design
7. Summary and future prospects of research

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