The share of services in the world FDI stock had grown to 60 percent by 2002, up from
around only one-quarter in the early 1970s. Services, furthermore, have accounted for …

The recent overseas outsourcing of a number of business services, such as call centres and
accounts processing, has raised concerns about the future of an area of business activity in …

The global structural shift towards service-based foreign direct investment (FDI) across the
world is a relatively recent phenomenon resulting from the increased tradability of services …

This paper examines what is still a relatively new phenomenon in the literature, the
outsourcing/offshoring of high-technology manufacturing and services. This has become a …

This paper provides a discussion of key issues which emerged from a review of the debate
on offshoring and outsourcing. Although offshoring is not a new phenomenon, the current …

Ireland is one of the most FDI-intensive economies in the Organisation of Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) and beyond. Foreign affiliates account for almost 50 …

There is a growing concern over the offshoring of jobs to organisations in developing
countries, particularly as we are now starting to lose high-wage knowledge jobs that may …

It is a well-known and often articulated fact that in most of the industrialised countries, and to
a lesser extent in less developed economies, services sectors account for the bulk of a …

Services are increasingly tradable, mainly as a result of rapid technological advances, in
particular in information and communication technologies (ICT), and continuing …

This article is an attempt to sum up the trends in the sourcing of IT services during the last
decade and to forecast how the industry will develop in the coming years. A substantial part …