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"Lift and Shift": Moving the Back Office to India

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  • Rafiq Dossani

    (, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, E309 Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street, Stanford, CA 94305-6055)

  • Martin Kenney

    (, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616)

Abstract

The recent growth in offshoring business processes is driven by the need for cost savings, but, because of the potential for both the quantity and quality of work that may be done overseas, has larger implications for the service economy in developed countries. This paper uses India as a case study to examine the business, knowledge-related, and technological considerations that drive the globalization of business process fulfillment. It also examines the industrial structure that is emerging in India for the work and draws conclusions about its future and its implications for service workers in developed countries. (c) 2004 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Rafiq Dossani & Martin Kenney, 2003. ""Lift and Shift": Moving the Back Office to India," Information Technologies and International Development, MIT Press, vol. 1(2), pages 21-37, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:itintd:v:1:y:2003:i:2:p:21-37
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    1. Molintas, Dominique Trual, 2010. "Globalisation impact on Danish SME: Offshore Outsourcing & local competitiveness," MPRA Paper 96529, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    8. Brown, Clair & Sturgeon, Timothy & Lane, Julia, 2014. "Using a business function framework to examine outsourcing and offshoring by US organizations," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt7cw581tg, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
    9. Robert Grzanka, 2007. "Umiędzynarodowienie sektora usług," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 7-8, pages 43-63.
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