30+ years of research and practice of outsourcing – Exploring the past and anticipating the future
Abstract
Outsourcing is a phenomenon that as a practice originated in the 1950s, but it was not until the 1980s when the strategy became widely adopted in organizations. Since then, the strategy has evolved from a strictly cost focused approach towards more cooperative nature, in which cost is only one, often secondary, decision-making criterion. In the development of the strategy, three broad and somewhat overlapping, yet distinct phases can be...
Paper Details
Title
30+ years of research and practice of outsourcing – Exploring the past and anticipating the future
Published Date
Jun 1, 2009
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
142 - 155
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