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Qualitative Modeling of Offshore Outsourcing Risks in Supply Chain Management and Logistics
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Qualitative Modeling of Offshore Outsourcing Risks in Supply Chain Management and Logistics

by Rajiv Kumar Sharma
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
5h 57m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Qualitative Modeling of Offshore Outsourcing Risks in Supply Chain Management and Logistics

Chapter 1 Offshore outsourcing, its types, benefits and risk categories

DOI: 10.1201/9781032707884-1

1.1 Introduction

Outsourcing is a business agreement in which firms, either national and/or international, make a contract to carry out internal and/or external functions which may be value-added or non-value-added functions to experienced supplier(s) with an aim to gain a competitive advantage (Di Mauro et al. 2018; Uygun et al. 2022). Outsourcing is also defined as the business practice of hiring an outside party to perform the services or to make products. The term outsourcing entered the business dictionary in the 1980s. In the mid-20th century, as businesses grew, more specialized skills were required; companies perceived that external ...

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