Admittedly, before taking Dr. Schwaz's class I assumed that outsourcing was synonymous with off-shoring. As a person who always values U.S. manufactured goods over foreign made products, I did not support [what I thought was] outsourcing. It turns out that I do support outsourcing and am not much for off-shoring.
Outsourcing is beneficial as it allows firms to concentrate more on their core competencies and less on task to which they are not specifically oriented. For example, a law firm can outsource marketing and concentrate more on what they were organized to do... practice law. There are obvious drawbacks to outsourcing (i.e. control, cost, etc...) but I believe that functions outside of a firms scope should be outsourced until that firm, through expansion efforts, is capable of incorporating those functions in to their operations and strategic goals.
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