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| List of figures | p. viii |
| List of tables | p. ix |
| List of boxes | p. xii |
| Notes on contributors | p. xiii |
| Preface: the reconfiguration of the world economy | p. xxv |
| Conceptual frameworks and theories | p. 1 |
| Global outsourcing and offshoring: in search of the optimal configuration for a company | p. 3 |
| Globalization of R&D: offshoring innovative activity to emerging economies | p. 48 |
| A theory of the outsourcing firm | p. 73 |
| The offshoring and outsourcing of R&D and innovative activities | p. 105 |
| Blurring firm R&D boundaries: integrating transaction costs and knowledge-based perspectives | p. 107 |
| Outsourcing, fragmentation, and integration: the pharmaceutical industry | p. 137 |
| Towards a better understanding of multinational enterprises' R&D location choices | p. 168 |
| Does R&D offshoring displace or strengthen knowledge production at home? Evidence from OECD countries | p. 191 |
| Innovation across tech-firms' boundaries: a knowledge-based view | p. 210 |
| Suitable organization forms for knowledge management at various R&D functions in decentralized and cooperative R&D networks | p. 239 |
| Management issues in offshoring and virtual teamwork | p. 265 |
| Changing work practices: acceptance of virtual work among knowledge professionals engaged in offshoring activities | p. 267 |
| Managing globally disaggregated teams: the role of organizational politics | p. 297 |
| Empirical analyses and case studies of outsourcing and offshoring | p. 325 |
| Offshoring of high-value functions: a case study of US-India trade in medical transcription services | p. 327 |
| Offshoring of IT and business, professional, and technical services: the recent experience of the United States | p. 355 |
| Outsourcing human resource activities | p. 378 |
| Managing core outsourcing to address fast market growth: a study of an Indian mobile telecom service provider | p. 402 |
| Imitative offshoring strategies: lessons learnt from the Italian small domestic appliance industry | p. 411 |
| Index | p. 449 |
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