Antecedents, processes dynamics and firm-level impact
Ørberg Jensen, Peter(Frederiksberg, 2008)
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Resume:
This PhD thesis addresses one of the most intensely debated phenomena over the past decade within
the realm of international business: Firms’ relocation of value chain activities to other parts in the
network of multinational corporation (MNC) or to external suppliers/services providers in foreign
countries (hereinafter referred to as offshoring), often to destination countries with lower cost
structures. Whereas the offshoring of manufacturing tasks has existed for several decades, and has
been analyzed in the international business literature, the offshoring of advanced services tasks from
developed country firms to destination countries such as India, which offer an attractive cocktail of
low costs and highly skilled labour, is a more recent phenomenon. The offshoring of this type of
services tasks forms the subject of this PhD thesis...