How Offshoring Elicits Reconfiguration of the Service Production System

Service production systems can be seen as a structure consisting of task execution, resources executing tasks and the service output received by the client. Offshoring acts as an exogenous shock to such a service production system. Drawing on practice theory and applying a multiple case methodology to a large, multinational shipping company we investigate how offshoring to an emerging economy leads to misalignment of the system. We then find...