Article in "Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal"

Article:

Towards a developing country firm perspective on outsourcing

Authors:

Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Schaumburg-Müller, Eugene Pottenger

Journal:

Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal

Publisher:

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Year: 2008 // Volume: 1 // Issue: 3 // Page: 210 - 229

Abstract:

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.

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