Special Issue Final Call for Papers
Offshoring & Outsourcing: The Organizational and Geographical Relocation of High-Value Company Functions
Submission Deadline June 15, 2008
Most companies have traditionally performed the bulk of their high-value functions within their home nation in which the parent firm is located. It was believed that the competitive advantage of a firm resided in its "core" activities, and that these should be kept in-house in order to foster future capabilities and to protect key knowledge from leakage to competitors. Examples of core or "high value" functions include Research and Development (R&D), critical IT designs, and proprietary processes. Companies are now considering the relocation of even more types of high-value activities to (a) foreign locations ("Offshoring") and/or (b) to external service providers or alliance partners ("Outsourcing"). A JMS Special Issue seeks to identify the factors that determine the mix, or spread, of global high-value operations over in-house versus external vendors - and in geographical terms, the proportion of home nation activities, versus those undertaken in foreign countries.
Types of Papers for the Special Issue
Both empirical as well as theory-building papers will be considered. As this topic lies at the intersection of several scholarly domains, papers can draw from several fields, such as Organization Theory, Strategy, International Business, and Technology & Innovation Management. However, aspects of the phenomenon can also encompass other areas such as Entrepreneurship, Operations Research and Organizational Behaviour.
Guest Editors
Farok J. Contractor (
farok@andromeda.rutgers.edu) Rutgers University
Vikas Kumar (
vikas.kumar@unibocconi.it) Bocconi University
Sumit K. Kundu (
kundus@fiu.edu) Florida International University
Torben Pedersen (
tp.smg@cbs.dk) Copenhagen Business School
Guidelines and Timeline
All manuscripts should be prepared according to JMS guidelines for authors (See
www.blackwellpublishing.com/jms ). Submissions will be double-blind reviewed following the journals normal review processes and criteria.
Please submit manuscripts in electronic form to
jms.smg@cbs.dk
Deadline for papers for JMS Special Issue: June 15 2008
Final decision on acceptances for JMS Special Issue: August 15 2009
For the full call for papers, visit
www.blackwellpublishing.com/jms
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