| Description |
1 online resource (494 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Notes on contributors; Preface:The reconfiguration of the world economy; Note; Part I: Conceptual frameworks and theories; 1 Global outsourcing and offshoring: In search of the optimal configuration for a company; 2 Globalization of R&D: Offshoring innovative activity to emerging economies; 3 A theory of the outsourcing firm; Part II: The offshoring and outsourcing of R&D and innovative activities; 4 Blurring firm R&D boundaries: Integrating transaction costs and knowledge-based perspectives |
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10 Changing work practices: Acceptance of virtual work among knowledge professionals engaged in offshoring activities11 Managing globally disaggregated teams: The role of organizational politics; Part IV: Empirical analyses and case studies of outsourcing and offshoring; 12 Offshoring of high-value functions: A case study of US-India trade in medical transcription services; 13 Offshoring of IT and business, professional, and technical services: The recent experience of the United States; 14 Outsourcing human resource activities |
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15 Managing core outsourcing to address fast market growth: A case study of an Indian mobile telecom service provider16 Imitative offshoring strategies: Lessons learnt from the Italian small domestic appliance industry; Index |
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5 Outsourcing, fragmentation, and integration: The pharmaceutical industry6 Towards a better understanding of multinational enterprises' R&D location choices; 7 Does R&D offshoring displace or strengthen knowledge production at home? Evidence from OECD countries; 8 Innovation across tech-firms' boundaries: A knowledge-based view; 9 Suitable organization forms for knowledge management at various R&D functions in decentralized and cooperative R&D networks; Part III: Management issues in offshoring and virtual teamwork |
| Summary |
The first book to examine the theory and practice of outsourcing and offshoring simultaneously |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Contracting out -- Developing countries
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Unemployment -- Developed countries
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Contracting out.
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Unemployment.
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Developed countries.
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Developing countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Contractor, Farok J.
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| LC no. |
2010035499 |
| ISBN |
0511761600 |
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0511852665 |
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0511925093 |
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0511927630 |
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0511930143 |
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0511931484 |
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0511932820 |
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0521193532 |
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1107214238 |
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1282918737 |
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661291873X |
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9780511761607 |
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9780511852664 |
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9780511925092 |
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9780511927638 |
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9780511930140 |
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9780511931482 |
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9780511932823 |
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9780521193535 |
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9781107214231 |
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9781282918733 |
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9786612918735 |
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