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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"outsource"”.
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An Evaluation of American Companies that Outsource Manufacturing to China: Decision-Making and Performance
… by American companies in deciding whether to outsource their production to China. The information regarding outsourcing overseas was collected from 22 American firms and 24 Chinese manufacturers to evaluate and provide insight into outsourcing arrangements. In the final chapter of this thesis, …
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Destination Diploma: How Chinese Upper-Middle-Class Families “Outsource” Secondary Education to the United States
<p>This research examines the emerging phenomenon of Chinese urban upper-middle-class families sending their only children, the so-called “parachute students,” to American private high schools in a triple framework of transnational elite education, the emerging global middle class, and the …
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Outsourced design : strategic implications and effective management of dispersed, inter-firm product development
… of outsourcing grows so does the willingness to outsource more functions, some of which are critical to a firm's success. For a company that develops innovative products, the most crucial function and typically the last to be outsourced is product design. Yet there exists a growing trend toward …
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Desverticalização das cadeias produtivas no setor de produção de biomedicamentos e a utilização das empresas CMOs (Contract Manufacturing Organization)
The decision between doing internally or outsource an activity is considered strategic to an organization. The purpose of this work was to study the current situation of the biopharmaceutical industry, seeking to understand how, why and where the organizations of the area are choosing to outsource …
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Strategic outsourcing of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
… such as MEMS. An analysis of ABB's decision to outsource MEMS is described with multiple frameworks including a vertical integration versus outsourcing model as well as a traditional make or buy decision assessment from a financial perspective. The decision to outsource is valid given the stage …
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Identification of factors responsible for successes or failures in the supply chain based on real-world case studies
… decision of firms from industrialized nations to outsource part or all of their supply chain activities to offshore countries, like in China, carries with it two major issues. The first is related to the costs and benefits of outsourcing and the second to risks and problems that may arise …
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Family Ownership and its impact on diversified Indian Business Group Ownership
… and firm characteristics which induce firms to outsource. We find that IT outsourcing has a strong positive effect on stock prices of announcing firms, especially for longer event windows. We also find that the higher the pre-announcement inefficiency of a firm (as evidenced by lower asset …
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DoD depot-level maintenance : factors to consider in public/private competition
… systems, the Services are often rushing to outsource without considering life-cycle costs and other key factors. Recommendations to improve the process are to: establish a better definition of core, enforce life-cycle determination, make use of in-house excess capacity, maximize the use of …
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Outsourcing And The Pupil Transportation Industry In Minnesota: An Economic Evaluation
… to control for the endogenous decision to outsource. The first stage results from fixed-effects two stage least squares (2SLS) regression show that the two instruments, population density and the number of school days increase the likelihood of outsourcing while wages have a negative …
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Outsourcing trends in semiconductor industry
… changed their business model and have started to outsource their manufacturing to merchant foundries. Semiconductor companies have also started to outsource the design and verification of their chips to third party design service companies and focus on core competence like research and development …
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Evolving a global armaments logistics strategy
… as a core competency. Instead, companies often outsource logistics operations and management to 3rd Party Logistics and other transportation solution providers. This paper explores how a company dealing with frequent shipments of explosive, Department of Defense cargo need not fully outsource …
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The application of failure mode and effect analysis to evaluate risks associated with outsourcing decisions
… the current methods of choosing suppliers to outsource, as well as issues and risks that need to be considered in the decision. A need arose for a tool to standardize the process of choosing a supplier and help the decision team consider more aspects than the bid price. This need gave the …
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Re-sourcing manufacturing processes in metal forming operations
… activities to conduct in-house and which to outsource has become increasingly important due to its implications on a company's supply chain and overall business model. A number of factors can lead a company to outsource manufacturing processes. As a result of this outsourcing, the supply …
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Empirical Studies in Asset Management
… essay investigates why fund families continue to outsource the portfolio management of their funds to unaffiliated investment advisors despite the well-documented underperformance of outsourced funds. Our empirical analysis shows that investment expertise, or the lack of it, drives the decision to …
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Integration of third party logistics providers within the distribution network
… offerings. This thesis explores the decision to outsource logistics activities. It presents both the financial and non-financial, strategic and operational factors, which affect the decision. The decision framework presented is applied to the current business situation at Intel and an outsourcing …
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Systematic prioritization of considerations in making offshore software development outsourcing decisions
… companies must carefully select who to outsource to. Although general guidelines exist for those companies to consult, they are not customizable to the unique needs of each company and project. By assessing the type of a company's outsourceable project and its in-house capabilities …
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Outsourcing, offshoring and the US office market
… nature and expense, these industries routinely outsource and/or offshore both major categories of IT work: application services (AO) and business process (BPO). To explore how IT outsourcing and offshoring is affecting the US office market, this work examined three professional services …
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Using publicly available financial data to measure production depth in the automobile industry
… or not to manufacture a part on their own or to outsource the manufacturing of that part to a supplier. The results of these "make-or-buy" decisions have impacts on that company's manufacturing competencies and strategies moving forward [1]. They also compound over time to define that company's …
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Optimizing Apparel Pack Sizes Across Retailer’s North America Network
Athletic apparel companies outsource apparel manufacturing to many factories that pack in varied sizes and quantities. Packaging is a critical, early step in retailers’ supply chains. Pack quantities impact downstream supply chain costs. Optimizing the relationship between pack quantities and …
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Evaluation of somewhat homomorphic encryption schemes
Homomorphic encryption allows one to outsource expensive computation to an untrusted party while keeping data in an encrypted form. While there has been a growing research focus in fully homomorphic encryption schemes, many real-world applications require a scheme to be only "somewhat" homomorphic. …
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