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Offshoring Production or Offshoring Pollution?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
We combine firm-level trade data from the U.S. Census Bureau with plant-level Toxics Release Inventory data from the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the impact of firms’ imports on t...
Xiaoyang Li, Yue Maggie Zhou
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Structure offshoring and returns on offshoring

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2014
Focusing on global offshoring, this paper adapts the dynamic capabilities perspective to analyze how the structuring of offshoring disaggregation and geographical dispersion affects firm performance. While previous studies show that the returns on offshoring remain unclear, we present three findings that explain how the structuring of offshoring ...
Yi-Ju Lo, Tung M. Hung
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The Economics of Offshoring [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This paper examines the various economic issues on offshoring (international outsourcing). It begins with a discussion of the factors that determine a firm's decision to offshore and illustrates, with simple models, the cost saving of offshoring certain stages of production and the advantages of specializing in some input production and engaging in ...
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Offshore teleradiology

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2004
Radiologists are responsible for providing prompt emergency radiology interpretations 24 hours a day, every day of the year. As a result of the increasing use of multidetector computed tomography, emergency radiology has increased significantly in volume over the past 5 years.
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Offshore nurse

Nursing Standard, 2016
A former deep sea fisherman is setting sail for a new nursing role ensuring offshore oil and gas workers stay safe.
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Offshoring and international competitiveness: antecedents of offshoring advanced tasks

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2011
During the past decade, offshoring has become an established business practice. Yet it is still more common to offshore less advanced tasks compared with offshoring more advanced tasks, i.e., tasks closer to the core activities of the firm. The latter is a new phenomenon which raises many new issues on the boundaries of the firm.
Ørberg Jensen, Peter D., Pedersen, Torben   +1 more
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Agile…and offshore

Communications of the ACM, 2007
An interview with a new paradigm.
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Service offshoring: the evolution of offshore operations

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2010
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of economic development on culture and the significance of cultural change on the evolution of offshoring of services and knowledge‐based activities.Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers a conceptual model that links economic development, national cultural predispositions, and the future ...
William E. Youngdahl, Kannan Ramaswamy, Kishore C. Dash   +2 more
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Issues in IS Offshoring

Information Systems Management, 2008
The offshoring of IS functions and activities has become a routine part of IS life in organizations.
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Country attractiveness for Offshoring and Offshore- Outsourcing

Journal of Information Technology, 2008
In this article, we review aspects relating to the attractiveness of India for information technology offshore ¿ outsourcing. Our starting point is that, indeed, India will remain competitive in the short-medium term. However, more importantly, we move on to argue that country attractiveness is becoming a less important issue.
Oshri, I (Ilan), Kotlarsky,
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