Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal: Volume 5 Issue 3

HRM practices during the global recession (2008‐2010): Evidence from globally distributed software development firms in Sri Lanka

Vathsala Wickramasinghe, Gayan Perera

The purpose of this paper is to investigate human resource management (HRM) practices adopted by firms during the recession period of 2008‐2010, their impact on employees'…

Towards a framework for transferring technology knowledge between facilities

Andre McBeath, Peter Ball

The transfer of technical know‐how is now recognised as an essential component in the globalised expansion of multinational companies. As these companies offshore or outsource…

Managing attrition in offshore finance and accounting outsourcing: Exploring the interplay of competing institutional logics

Brian Nicholson, Aini Aman

Managing attrition is a major challenge for outsourcing vendors. Literature on management control in offshore outsourcing is dominated by the formal approaches to control design…

Small firm entrepreneurial outsourcing: traditional problems, nontraditional solutions

Patrick J. Murphy, Zhaohui Wu, Harold Welsch, Daniel R. Heiser, Scott T. Young, Bin Jiang

Pursuing objectives despite limited internal resources and leveraging external resources despite non‐ownership are familiar hallmarks of entrepreneurial firms. Although…