Does outsourcing really add value to companies?
In all the din about the benefits of outsourcing, there is very little empirical evidence on how exactly does this model pay. One line of argument is that its not outsourcing per se, but the innovation...
View ArticleGrowing Women employees in Indian BPO
Sixty years ago, six young women programmed the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer that became the basis for today’s IT revolution. Several years later, Google co-founders Larry Page...
View ArticleRPO gaining in traction
The other day I happened to stumble upon a career portal launched by a Tirupur (Tamil Nadu) based textile group that offers video conferencing facilities to recruiters, wanting to widen their...
View ArticleR&D outsourcing growing faster than total R&D spending
A report from the Center for Research in Innovation and Competition in the University of Manchester concludes, “Firms, even large multinational corporations, can no longer expect to be totally...
View ArticleOutsourcing Tax for financial service providers in EU
Come January 1, 2010, with the proposed changes in the VAT rules, UK’s financial service companies would no longer be able to enjoy the tax breaks for outsourcing. Under the current rules , when the...
View ArticleOffshore publishing picks up
Recently Financial Post carried a news mentioning that The Toronto Star has asked its entire unionized and non-unionized staff to take voluntary severance packages as the newspaper is toying with the...
View ArticleOutsourcing transcends industries
It’s nobody’s case that outsourcing is an efficient, cost-saving market strategy that transcends industries, be it furniture-making reports that between 2000 to 2006, Chinese furniture imports to US...
View ArticleProcurement Outsourcing Growing
Writing for International Trade Theory and Policy Steven M. Suranovic, said that the theory of comparative advantage in economics mandates that two countries will find it beneficial to trade with each...
View ArticleWhat and how to pay for Finance Accounting Outsourcing (FAO)?
Because the offshoring trend is still so new, buyers are in a fix determining how much to pay for what service. In this context, I read a very insightful article by Alexa Michael in Financial...
View ArticleIndia’s true share in the offshoring pie
A Professor from the London School of Economics (LSE), Raja Mitra, who is a former World Bank executive has stirred a hornet’s nest with his suggestion that contrary to the hype generally created...
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