Invisible costs in offshoring services work

A Stringfellow, MB Teagarden, W Nie - Journal of Operations Management, 2008 - Elsevier
Offshoring service work is an accelerating trend. While the cost-savings from offshoring
service work are usually clear, operating at a distance also brings with it certain “invisible …

Outsourcing: Pros and cons

M Weidenbaum - Business horizons, 2005 - Elsevier
Overseas outsourcing of jobs is far more complicated than is generally understood.
Pressures to outsource range from better-serving overseas markets to increasing the …

Exploring customer reactions to offshore call centers: toward a comprehensive conceptual framework

P Sharma, R Mathur, A Dhawan - Journal of Services Marketing, 2009 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating influence of attitude toward
offshore call centers (OCCs) and brand image of the service provider firm on the …

Who supplied my cheese? Supply chain management in the global economy: innovations have profound macroeconomic effects

TF Siems - Business economics, 2005 - Springer
Today, with an Internet connection and some specialized skills, individuals and companies
located in the remotest ends of the earth can compete and collaborate globally. This …

Outsourcing als strategische Option

U Krystek - Zukunftsorientierter Wandel im …, 2009 - Springer
„Do what you do best, but outsource the rest?“(Siems u. Ratner 2003, S. 13). Dieser gern
zitierte Satz deutet auf eine scheinbar einfache Entscheidungssituation hin, ist aber im …

Understanding consumer reactions to offshore outsourcing of customer services

P Sharma, R Mathur, A Dhawan - … and offshoring in the 21st century …, 2006 - igi-global.com
Offshore outsourcing is a fast-growing aspect of the world economy today and it has drawn
attention from policy makers as well as public at large in many developed countries …

Understanding consumer reactions to offshore outsourcing of customer services

P Sharma, R Mathur, A Dhawan - Electronic Commerce: Concepts …, 2008 - igi-global.com
Offshore outsourcing is a fast-growing aspect of the world economy today and it has drawn
attention from policy makers as well as public at large in many developed countries …

Serving Global Consumers with a Local Mind Set: An Investigation of Customers' Perception of Offshore Call Centres' Services

H Khan, P Rodrigo, PS Koku - ICSB World Conference …, 2011 - search.proquest.com
This study investigates the attitudes of UK consumers toward offshore call centres. Three
research hypotheses were developed to investigate to what extent consumers' attitude …

Analyzing the Debate over Offshore Outsourcing in the Service Industry: Is there a Reason for Concern?

G VanderWeerdt - Major Themes in Economics, 2006 - scholarworks.uni.edu
Abstract The United States has experienced an increase in the offshore outsourcing
(offshoring) of jobs in the service industry. Although offshoring is common in the …

Third Party Logistics (3PL): A new way of Management

SE LEHMER, B ELKHARCHI… - International Journal of …, 2024 - woas-journals.com
Nowadays, many companies rely heavily on outsourced services and suppliers that
contribute to the production process in one or more ways. Logistics outsourcing aims to …