Globalization and Outsourcing Assignment PDF

Running head: GLOBALISATION AND OUTSOURCING
Globalization and Outsourcing
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

1GLOBALISATION AND OURSOURCING
Executive Summary
This report will discuss about the concepts of outsourcing and offshoring through the lens of
the organization “Atlassian Corporation Plc”. The concepts of outsourcing and offshoring
will be discussed at the very beginning of the report and also the way it is being used by the
organizations will be highlighted. The role of various international managers in the particular
context of the outsourcing and offshoring will also be discussed. An introduction to the
organization “Atlassian Corporation Plc” will be given and the way the organization uses
these concepts. Finally, the report will conclude with a discussion of some of the positive as
well as the negative impacts of the processes of outsourcing and offshoring.

2GLOBALISATION AND OURSOURCING
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Outsourcing and offshoring........................................................................................................4
Role of the international managers............................................................................................5
“Atlassian Corporation Plc”.......................................................................................................7
“Atlassian Corporation Plc” and outsourcing and offshoring....................................................8
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12

3GLOBALISATION AND OURSOURCING
Introduction
In the framework of the modern day business community the concept of globalization
is seen as a major boon which has considerably modified the way the various business houses
operate their business (Larsen, Manning and Pedersen 2013). Prior to the introduction of the
process of globalization the various business houses use to operate their business following
the traditional precepts and frameworks of business (Larsen, Manning and Pedersen 2013).
Therefore, the introduction of the process of globalization is often seen as a factor which has
impacted the prospects of the various business houses in a positive manner (Honeycutt Jr,
Magnini and Thelen 2012). Furthermore, the framework of globalization has been in practice
since the dawn of human civilization and the various civilizations in the traditional times use
to take the help of this particular process to conduct trade with their neighboring civilizations.
However, the process of globalization gained special with the introduction of the telegraph
system and also with the innovation of the steamboats (Honeycutt Jr, Magnini and Thelen
2012). Many scholars are of the opinion that the process of globalization is “the trend of
increasing interaction between people or companies on a worldwide scale due to advances in
transportation and communication technology, nominally beginning with the steamship and
the telegraph in the early to mid-1800s” (Gregory, Beck and Keil 2013). Moreover, the
“International Monetary Fund (IMF)” in 2000 gave four basic characteristics of
globalization, namely, trade as well as transactions, investments, transfer of knowledge and
increasing migration of people from one place to another (Gregory, Beck and Keil 2013). All
these four factors have emerged as the basic precepts of the corporate world and their
international business in the current day context and this particular fact explains the growing
emphasis of the various business houses of the present times (Gregory, Beck and Keil 2013).
Thus, the major business houses of the present times taking the help of this particular process