Article in "Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal"
Article:
Towards a developing country firm perspective on outsourcing
Authors:
Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Schaumburg-Müller, Eugene Pottenger
Journal:
Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Year: 2008 // Volume: 1 // Issue: 3 // Page: 210 - 229
Abstract:
The article argues that although several theoretical domains indirectly shed light on outsourcing from a DCF perspective, they are typically approaching the issue from a macro (country) and meso (industry) level perspective and rarely explicitly apply a micro (firm) level perspective. Moreover, they tend to view DCF strategy in outsourcing collaborations as functions of MNCs' strategies, not as strategies in their own right. In order to fill this apparent lacuna in the outsourcing literature, the article reviews a number of theories that may help building a research agenda on outsourcing from a developing country perspective.
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