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Living the Outsourcing Compulsion

In: The Customer Trap

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  • Andrew R. Thomas
  • Timothy J. Wilkinson

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The conventional wisdom in government, business schools, and much of industry is that companies choose to close their costly domestic operations in favor of better prospects and profits in other countries. The ability to manufacture a product for 30 percent to 50 percent less than it would cost at home is widely considered to be the reason that American firms have flocked overseas in recent years. Thus far, the outsourcing (or, more properly, “offshoring”) conversation has pitted shrinking transaction costs, enhanced efficiencies, and fat profits against job loss, societal disruption, and a sense of economic angst as industries restructure themselves to conform to the new realities of the digitized, global age.

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  • Andrew R. Thomas & Timothy J. Wilkinson, 2015. "Living the Outsourcing Compulsion," Springer Books, in: The Customer Trap, edition 0, chapter 0, pages 53-71, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4842-0385-9_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-0385-9_5
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