Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services

A growing number of companies are opting to perform increasing types of professional services in foreign countries creating for some companies unprecedented opportunities to reduce costs and nucleate strategic relationships while for others representing a major threat to current prosperity. Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services: Business Optimization in a Global Economy discusses the considerations and implications surrounding the outsourcing and offshoring of professional services such as software development computer-aided design and healthcare from multiple global perspectives. This Premier Reference Source offering industry professionals policymakers students and educators with a balance between a broad overview and detailed analysis of offshore outsourcing is an invaluable addition to academic research and corporate libraries.This publication includes a foreward by Lester C. Thurow Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics and Former Dean MIT Sloan School of Management.