Why domestic outsourcing is leading America's reemergence in global manufacturing

With cost advantages from manufacturing in Asia and Mexico steadily deteriorating, U.S. firms are reassessing the option of domestic outsourcing to remain globally competitive. The challenge in evaluating international versus domestic outsourcing strategic options lies in that first-movers are extremely and intentionally vague about how they reach their decisions. The purpose of this article is to reveal these reasons by providing statistical and firm-based evidence on five major factors that are influencing the decision regarding where U.S. companies should manufacture to optimize their gross profits. The factors include (1) increasingly competitive U.S. labor costs; (2) increasing productivity of the U.S. workforce; (3) increasingly competitive domestic production costs; (4) incentives from federal, state, and local governments; and (5) improved synchronization of production with other business functions.     

Human resource outsourcing: Market and operating performance effects of administrative HR functions

Using event study methodology and two-stage regression analysis on a sample of firms announcing human resource outsourcing (HRO) contracts, this study tests the association between administrative HRO and firm-level capital market and long run operating performance, with archival financial data controlling for endogeneity and outsourcing decision optimality. The results demonstrate that the equity capital market responds positively to client firms announcing administrative HRO, particularly service firms and those outsourcing transactional HR tasks. Additional statistical analysis shows that suboptimal outsourcing is negatively associated with long run operating performance measured as return on assets and operating return on assets. This study contributes to outsourcing literature by more precisely quantifying outsourcing performance through archival financial data and employing capital market empirical tests. Further, it controls for outsourcing decision optimality in examining long run operating performance effects. This research focuses on HR, a critical function within the firm and value enhancing to the firm.     

软件服务外包人才培养模式研究

文章从满足软件外包市场需求的角度,结合西安工业大学软件工程专业课程建设的总体思路,以"对日软件工程师实验班"的建设和发展为基础,提出面向服务外包的软件工程人才培养方案。     

我国企业财务外包风险分析及防范措施

近年来,财务外包在西方国家发展迅速,作为一种财务管理模式,其在外包服务市场中占有很大的比重。随着越来越多外资进入中国,财务外包也开始在国内流行。企业将财务外包,不仅可省去低层次、费时费力的财务操作过程以节约财务管理成本,还可以通过专业会计师得到企业需要的相关信息,作出正确的投资信贷决策。但是,企业在采取财务外包方式的同时也蕴含着大量的风险,风险本身不可能完全消除,文章通过对财务外包风险的分析,提出相关的风险应对措施。     

广西柳工物流外包决策与改善分析

物流被认为是"第三利润源",而物流外包作为供应链管理环境下企业物流资源配置的一种新形式,已成为商业领域的一个趋势。企业进行物流外包时须考虑主观与客观诸多因素,以形成合理的决策方案。根据物流管理的基本理论,采用层次分析法建立决策模型,为企业物流外包决策提供依据,并借鉴成组技术改善企业物流的运营模式,从而增强企业在市场上的竞争能力。     

承接跨国外包型企业的经营状况——基于L公司的个案研究

当前,广西承接跨国外包型企业存在经营规模普遍偏小,管理不善;员工思想僵化落后;中、高端行业人才缺乏;尚未树立自己的品牌等问题。近年来,人们逐渐把手套作为一种装饰品。随着人们对自己双手关爱与饰品关注程度的提升,给手套市场增添了许多需求空间。此时,企业应当抓住时机,在增加订单的同时,努力扩大企业规模,完善管理制度,提升员工素质等。文章以L公司为例,分析它所处的行业环境和所采取的经营模式,意在揭示该公司所拥有的优势和存在的不足。     

对第三方物流的决策因素及决策形式的探讨

高效的第三方物流活动在增强企业核心竞争力、提高增值服务水平、降低物流成本、优化内外资源等方面都起着不可替代的作用。但第三方物流这些作用能否得以充分发挥很大程度上取决于第三方物流供应商的水平和实力,而目前现有的评价选择方法又有一定局限,所以能否建造有效的第三方物流供应商的选择模型、能否选择合适的第三方物流供应商成为企业物流业务外包成败的关键,这也是很有现实意义又亟待解决的问题。     

基于国际服务外包需求的高职商务英语专业校企合作研究

本文首先在问卷调查的基础上探讨了当前高职商务英语专业校企合作所面临的困境,接着分析了新兴国际服务外包行业需求及其成为商务英语专业校企合作成功典范所具有的特点,最后提出了高职商务英语专业校企合作创新发展的5个策略。     

The dark side of logistics outsourcing - Unraveling the potential risks leading to failed relationships

We identify and empirically examine the potential risk factors and their structural relationships that can cause a logistics outsourcing relationship to fail. Specifically, we investigate how the relationship risk as perceived by apparel wholesalers as user firms influence their evaluation on the asset and competence entrusted with their logistics service providers, which are logistics outsourcing risk factors considered important by the former in determining continued relationships with the latter. The results highlight the need for relationship management by user firms to mitigate the risks in asset and competence specifically invested in logistics service providers for their outsourced activities.     

服务外包研究：国外的视角及评价

作为经济全球化的产物,以资源的全球有效配置为导向,伴随跨国公司新一轮的产业结构调整,服务外包尤其是离岸外包近年来发展迅猛,特别是本轮经济危机所导致的降低成本与降低风险的要求使得离岸外包成为逆势飘扬的产业。服务外包的理论研究在我国还处于起步阶段,主要集中在对国外理论的学习吸收和部分创新阶段。文章从多个视角对国外相关理论进行了梳理与评价,归纳其研究特点,并指出研究的不足之处即研究领域。