Special Issue on Outsourcing

There are many reasons that companies outsource various jobs, the most prominent advantage seems to be the fact that it often avoid certain costs. In many cases companies can save money from outsourcing - such as peripheral or "non-core" business expenses, high taxes, high energy costs, excessive government regulation, production and labor costs. But there are some drawbacks to outsourcing as well, such as miscommunication or lower quality of intermediate products, which end up delaying the overall production process.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on exploring outsourcing. The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Outsourcing and offshoring
• Reasons for outsourcing
• Strategic outsourcing
• Business process outsourcing (BPO)
• Engineering process outsourcing (EPO)
• Information technology outsourcing (ITO)
• Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO)
• Legal process outsourcing (LPO)
• Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
  
  

Authors should read over the journal’s Authors’ Guidelines carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly notice that the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue - Outsourcing” should be chosen during your submission.

According to the following timetable:

Guest Editor:

Prof. Avik Chakrabarti

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

For further questions or inquiries

Please contact Editorial Assistant at

me@scrip.org