Article by M.W. Hansen and H. Schaumburg-Müller award winner of the Literati Network Awards for Excellence

Michael W. Hansen and Henrik Schaumburg-Müller's article: "Towards a developing country firm perspective on outsourcing" published in Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, 2008, has been chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009.

Every year Emerald Journals invites each editorial team of its many journals to nominate what they believe has been that journal's Outstanding Paper and up to three Highly Commended Papers from the previous 12 months. This year Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Schaumburg-Müller and Eugene Pottenger's article in Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal has been selected as a Highly Commended Paper as it was one of the most impressive pieces of work the team has seen throughout 2008.

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.

"Towards a developing country firm perspective on outsourcing", Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, 2008.

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