Global Outsourcing

Seungbum Lee
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Seungbum Lee: Seungbum Lee is Assistant Professor in Department of Sport Science and Wellness Education, College of Education at University of Akron, Ohio, USA. E-mail: s165@uakron.edu

Global Business Review, 2010, vol. 11, issue 2, 153-165

Abstract: With the advent of globalization, social science is taking new academic approaches to re-visit and re-examine many social issues. The world of sport, too, adopts a new theoretical lens for a better understanding of the topic of sport management. The purpose of this experimental discourse is to propose a different, nay, comprehensive academic approach to an understanding of current sport labour migration. Given the fact that current sport labour migration reveals uniqueness, a new perspective to re-visit and re-examine the current sport labour migration is necessary. This article suggests and even carefully argues that current sport labour migration can be explained as a form of global outsourcing. Three most common reasons for outsourcing, cost minimization, quality improvement and access to resources, are used to view sport labour migration as a form of global outsourcing. Based on the suggestion and argument made, this article also provides a direction for future research.

Keywords: Outsourcing; Globalization; Sport; Sport team; Athlete migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/097215091001100203

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