scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

History of offshoring knowledge services

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The offshoring of knowledge services has become the stuff of newspaper headlines and U.S. presidential debates as discussed by the authors, and the antecedents of the current state of affairs can be traced back to the early 1980s.
About
This article is published in Journal of Operations Management.The article was published on 2008-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 137 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Offshoring & Service (business).

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Building long-term orientation in buyer–supplier relationships: The moderating role of culture

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate buyer-supplier relationships in international markets and propose that the relative effects of trust and performance on long-term orientation are moderated by culture, specifically individualism and collectivism.
Journal ArticleDOI

Outsourcing congruence with competitive priorities: Impact on supply chain and firm performance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the degree of congruence (fit or alignment) between a firm's outsourcing drivers and its competitive priorities and assess the impact of con-gruence on both supply chain performance and business performance using empirical data collected from manufacturing business units operating in the United States.
Journal ArticleDOI

Service, services and products: rethinking operations strategy

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach to operations and supply strategy in the light of recent developments in the analysis of the respective roles of products and services in delivering benefits to customers is proposed.
Journal ArticleDOI

The sites and practices of business models

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify technology, market offering and network architecture as the three core elements of business models and examine the theoretical routes of each element through the associated literatures: technology and innovation studies, industrial marketing, operations strategy, and evolutionary economics.
Journal ArticleDOI

The globalization of operations in Eastern and Western countries: Unpacking the relationship between national and organizational culture and its impact on manufacturing performance

TL;DR: The authors conducted a multilevel investigation of the impact of eight national and organizational culture dimensions (according to GLOBE framework) on manufacturing performance and found that organizational culture has more of an effect than national culture or the fit between them.
References
More filters
Book

The Winner-Take-All Society

TL;DR: In this paper, the winner take all society to review, not just review, however also download them or even read online, and this is really going to save you time and money in something should think about.
Journal ArticleDOI

Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?

TL;DR: In this article, N. Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard professor then serving as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, caused a national uproar with a "textbook" statement about trade, and economists rushed to his defense.
Journal Article

The coming commoditization of processes.

TL;DR: A broad set of process standards will soon make it easy to determine whether a business capability can be improved by outsourcing it, and these standards will also help businesses compare service providers and evaluate the costs versus the benefits of outsourcing.
Book

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean

Carla Freeman
TL;DR: High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy as discussed by the authors is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies, where women are seen as integral not simply to the workings of globalization but as helping to shape its very form.

Offshoring : The Next Industrial Revolution

TL;DR: In this paper, Mankiw, a Harvard professor then serving as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, caused a national uproar with a "textbook" statement about trade.
Related Papers (5)
Frequently Asked Questions (1)
Q1. What are the contributions in "History of offshoring knowledge services" ?

The offshoring of knowledge services has become the stuff of newspaper headlines and U.S. presidential debates this paper.