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Off-shoring and outsourcing

In: Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • David E. Hawkins

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The trend in recent years has been for companies to reduce their established resources profiles by outsourcing (and, more recently, off-shoring) many previously internal activities. This evolution is part of the growing globalization of the business community. The focus to reduce cost has driven many organizations towards low-cost labour markets for manufacturing and is now a growing trend in business process operations and service provision from external providers. This trend has clearly brought shareholder benefits but perhaps has been less beneficial to the communities that have lost employment and created new pressures in the communities that are (in the short term) winning employment opportunities.

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  • David E. Hawkins, 2006. "Off-shoring and outsourcing," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Corporate Social Responsibility, chapter 0, pages 168-178, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62581-5_20
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230625815_20
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