Macro-environment’s effects on onshore outsourcing: the transition costs approach

Purpose Through the literature, the effect of macro-environment on onshore outsourcing decisions appears rather unexplored, despite empirical evidence. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap through an extension of Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) (the main theory of domestic outsourcing). Design/methodology/approach This paper develops a framework based on a literature review. It applies this body of knowledge on a new question and...