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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking
A corporationâs offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore sourcing in low-cost countries is best described as a learning-by-doing process in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation. Initially, a corporationâs outsourcing is driven by a desire for cost minimization. Over a period of time the outsourcing experience lessens the cognitive limitations of decision-makers as to the advantages that can be achieved through outsourcing in low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation. The quality improvements that offshore outsourcing may bring about evoke a realization in the corporation that even innovative processes can be outsourced.Offshore outsourcing, cost reduction, innovation, experiential learning, low-cost countries
Minimum Riesz energy problems for a condenser with "touching plates"
Minimum Riesz energy problems in the presence of an external field are
analyzed for a condenser with touching plates. We obtain sufficient and/or
necessary conditions for the solvability of these problems in both the
unconstrained and the constrained settings, investigate the properties of
minimizers, and prove their uniqueness. Furthermore, characterization theorems
in terms of variational inequalities for the weighted potentials are
established. The results obtained are illustrated by several examples.Comment: 32 pages, 1 figur
The influence of acoustic and physiological factors on some vowel changes in Danish
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