With intensified global competition, institutional changes and reduced communication costs the propensity of firms to reconfigure their global value chain and separate their activities across national boundaries has increased markedly. It enables firms to combine the benefits arising from...

A corporation's offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore...

Managing Global Offshoring Strategies -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER 1 -- Managing Offshoring - An Introduction -- Setting the Scene - Some Definitions -- Companies - Central Engines of Globalization -- Analytical Insight - The Value Chain -- The Decision to Offshore - What, Where and How? --...

Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...