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The continuous search for efficiency gains and the goal of attaining a sustainable competitive advantage have steadily increased the volume of goods and services procured globally from third party vendors. In this context, named as “the next wave of globalization”, the offshoring phenomenon has stimulated research and political debates. With the rise of services offshoring, international value chain disaggregation for services has reached a formerly unknown scale. Also, it is increasingly complex transactions, requiring a higher degree of qualification, which are becoming subject to offshoring as well. The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization features selected chapters by an international research community on the topic of offshoring. All potential business models from offshore outsourcing to third party providers are covered, from cooperative arrangements to internal organizational set-ups including captive offshore centers. Contributions have significant insights regarding: the increasing offshoring of knowledge-intensive services; the offshoring process; business models incorporating offshoring; the hidden costs of offshoring; and the administration of offshoring activities within firms The book is aimed at a broad audience of scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of strategy, international business and operations management.

Contracting out. --- Globalization -- Economic aspects. --- Globalization. --- Offshore outsourcing. --- Offshore outsourcing --- Globalization --- Management --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Business & Economics --- Industrial Management --- Civil Engineering --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Contract services --- Contracting for services --- Outsourcing --- Services, Contracting for --- Off-shoring --- Offshoring --- Engineering. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Production management. --- Engineering economics. --- Engineering economy. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Operations Management. --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Letting of contracts --- Privatization --- Public contracts --- Contracting out --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Organisation --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Industrial engineering --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization

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With intensified global competition, institutional changes and reduced communication costs the propensity of firms to reconfigure their global value chain and separate their activities across national boundaries has increased markedly. It enables firms to combine the benefits arising from specialization and increased flexibility with location advantages. Consequently, large parts of manufacturing and other more standardized activities have been offshored to emerging countries. However, recent developments are challenging this traditional separation between advanced and emerging economies as host of knowledge- and production-intensive activities, respectively. Recent research has emphasized the role of intra-organizational relationships and links among the different parts of the value chain. Innovative and productive activities are affected by strong interdependencies and complementarities, and for some companies the co-location of R&D and manufacturing is critical for development and innovation. This volume will interest scholars in International Business, Economic Geography, Operations and Supply Chain Management, International Economics, and Political Science.

Strategic alliances (Business) --- Business logistics. --- Supply chain management --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Alliances in business --- Business alliances, Strategic --- Corporate alliances --- Strategic business alliances --- Strategic corporate alliances --- Strategic partnerships (Business) --- Partnership --- Business networks --- International economic relations. --- Business & Economics --- Management & management techniques. --- Management. --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions

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This book contributes to the understanding of Knowledge Governance in the Multinational Corporation. Intra-firm and inter-firm processes of knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation have attracted increasingly managerial and scholarly interest. However the relation between particular knowledge processes, determinants of organizational choices, governance mechanisms, their relevant costs and benefits, and associated strategic advantages remain less well understood. To address these challenges, this book gives answers to the following questions. What are key challenges of governing knowledge in the multinational corporation? How do contingencies influence relavent trade-offs? How do sets of governance mechanisms respond to problems of cognition and incentives?

Business networks. --- Corporate governance. --- International business enterprises --- Knowledge management. --- Technology transfer --- Management. --- Business networks --- Corporate governance --- Knowledge management --- Management

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