Global Outsourcing of Professional Services

Satwik Seshasai and Amar Gupta ()

No 4456-04, Working papers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management

Abstract: As a growing number of firms , especially those in the United States, outsource more of their professional services across geographic and temporal boundaries. Using a multi-faceted framework for this study, this paper shows that very careful analysis is needed to establish the optimal level and structure for the 24-hour Knowledge Factory., one is faced with a corresponding need to examine the long-term ramifications on business and society. Some persons are convinced that cost considerations should reign as the prevalent predominant decision-making factor, ; others argue Many of the immediate conclusions being drawn by stakeholders, such as that outsourcing means permanent job loss, ; and still others believe outsourcing makes US goods and services more competitive in the global marketplace. that short-term investments are sufficient,We assert that if outsourcing options need to be analyzed in detail with critical objectivity in order to derive benefits for the concerned constituencies.

Date: 2004-04-02
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