Faqir Chand Kohli (1924-2020)

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2017

2015

Outsourcing became a relatively well-known term in the last three decades both in the academic and the business world. Contrarily or because of it there are so many different terms around the outsourcing model that many times it could confuse even the experts of the area. The aim of this research to collect all important outsourcing terms, organize them, create a framework or grouping them with different viewpoints. The framework could help to understand the similarities and differences about the different classes.

Global Business Review, 2010

Outsourcing is an age-old practice whereas offshore outsourcing is relatively new. Issues related to offshore outsourcing came into centre stage along with the process of globalization. Offshore outsourcing of services is the result of economic and technological developments across countries. This became popular in India after the economic liberalization process. The present article makes an attempt to lay an integrative ground work for understanding outsourcing, including its evolution, theoretical developments and future trends. The article presents a comprehensive framework of critical dimensions of outsourcing as well as offshore outsourcing in India along with the comparative advantages and disadvantages of offshore outsourcing in today's time.

2011

2004

The recent overseas outsourcing of a number of business services, such as call centres and accounts processing, has raised concerns about the future of an area of business activity in which the UK has been deemed to hold a competitive advantage. While the future direction of UK manufacturing may have been questionable, the abundance of skilled service workers has long been thought to provide the basis for a strong alternative range of businesses. But ICT developments have reduced the dependence of many tasks from any particular location and made possible the relocation of many service jobs from industrialized to developing countries that provide a suitable infrastructure, high skills labour market and labour cost benefits. The great majority of work which is being offshored is in information technology (IT) and business process or call centre work (BPO). The providers of IT/BPO services include UK specialists, multinationals, and an emerging group of Indian companies. Interestingly,...

2020

Outsourcing and offshoring processes have existed for a long time and have always been closely related to international business. The advent of modern means of telecommunications and transportation, among other vital factors, has enabled the companies to reach levels of outsourcing and offshoring, which we have never witnessed before. On the other hand, this massive offshoring caused a phenomenon called de-industrialisation in the once heavily industrialised countries such as the USA, Australia, UK, Canada, and subsequently to some of the EU countries and Japan. Can the USA and these others, once amongst the most industrialised countries in the world, return the decades-old trend of offshoring misfortune in their interest so that they may experience a "Manufacturing Renaissance" is the primary notion behind this publication.

BMJ Global Health, 2017

Introduction to comments on 'Outsourcing: how to reform WHO for the 21st century'.

American Journal of Sociology, 2013

Outsourcing is an efficient way to reduce a company's costs and is often necessary to remain competitive. However, the practice has had its critics. This article summarizes the outsourcing debate that has been going on in the United States and offers some insights about the practice. Also included is a bibliography with links to more than 100 articles on various aspects of international trade.

IT Professional, 2004