Offshoring

Offshoring means relocating non core activities to low cost areas while maintaining the activity within the organization.

Offshoring and developing country interests

Identify constraints in key offshoring markets

It was pointed that outsourcing through offshoring was a win win situation for both the offshoring and the recipient firms (countries).

On the other hand, there may be adjustment costs, especially social costs in the case of offshoring of labour intensive activities.

Undertake advocacy work for keeping offshoring markets open.

On the other hand, there may be adjustment costs, especially social costs in the case of the offshoring of labour intensive activities.

Myth 5 Offshoring of jobs will devastate rich countries.

This offshoring initiative might also serve as a pilot study and useful benchmark for further similar arrangements for a wide range of administrative activities.

Some studies have shown that the offshoring firms gained more than the recipient countries.

To sustain competitiveness by moving from merely providing human resources and infrastructure to managing those resources, making constant efforts to move up the value chain, and exploring potentials in new offshoring activities.

Another type of defensive reaction this time to outward FDI may well arise once the offshoring of services gathers more speed. All indications are that offshoring has reached the tipping point, and more of it will take place through FDI.

Although new strategies and policies are required, there is little research on root causes and the prospects of the innovation offshoring phenomenon.

Second, Obama has attacked the outsourcing of service jobs to places like India and the offshoring of manufacturing jobs to Asia as a whole.

Nonetheless, offshoring was often seen as a North South issue despite the fact that almost 70 per cent of this trade was North North.

In particular, offshoring required people to move for the purpose of securing the work, negotiating the contract, trouble shooting, maintenance support, and so forth.

According to Blinder, 42 56 million US jobs about one third of all public and private sector jobs in the country are vulnerable for offshoring.

In spite of the clear gains for both the home country firms and recipient countries, offshoring has created concern and protectionist opposition from some developed country constituencies.

For example, when a US company offshored to India, 1 of offshoring created 1.45 of economic value, of which the US economy received 1.12 and the Indian economy 33 cents.

The offshoring alternative was recognized in a wide sense in a background paper prepared by the ICT (information and communications technologies) Networking Group of the High level Committee on Management (HLCM).

The globalizing of production processes, including services production, offshoring and the perceived movement of both manufacturing and services jobs from developed to developing nations is an issue of interest to policymakers.

It was noted that a major new trend in the electronics sector was the division of labour shifting from the era of the global electronics factory to that of innovation offshoring .

Over the last two decades, India has become a global hub for software development and offshoring of back office services, as we call it, and what we were interested in finding out was that because of this huge industry that has started over the last two decades in India, offshoring software development and back office services, there's been a flight of white collar jobs from the developed world to India.

The mode of these interactions is also important, e.g. through non equity or equity forms with suppliers, customers, competitors and universities through outsourcing and offshoring and through the establishment of research consortia.

Offshoring had important linkages with other GATS modes of service supply, and this made it imperative for national policy makers and trade negotiators in the GATS to take a holistic view of these linkages.

Such opportunities can arise either from outsourcing, i.e. outsourcing a service to a third party service provider abroad, or from captive offshoring, i.e. producing the service internally through the establishment of a foreign affiliate abroad.

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It's not a new product or a new process but a new way to organize work, and the most significant management innovation to come out of India, invented by the Indian offshoring industry is what we call the global delivery model.

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Rapid progress must also be made to improve the development potential of trade in services by liberalizing the temporary supply of labour services (mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services) and cross border supply of services via outsourcing and offshoring (mode 1).

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