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.[...]