Outsourcing Business Practices and Their Impact

Running head: BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Business Research Methodology
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Table of Content
1.1 Introduction................................................................................................................................3
1.2 Project Scope.............................................................................................................................5
1.3 Project aim and Objectives........................................................................................................5
1.4 Hypotheses.................................................................................................................................6
1.5 Research Questions....................................................................................................................6
1.6 Methodology..............................................................................................................................6
1.7 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Topic: Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing Business Functions
1.1 Introduction
The proposed research is based on the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing business
functions. In managerial context, the practices of outsourcing have varied a lot over the past two
decades, which is spanning from the externalization of support activities to some fundamental
process. However, in the recent time, organizations tend to manage a portfolio of outsourced
activities that could include relatively low-skill activities and knowledge-intensive service (Liu,
and Wang 2014). It has been observed in the recent time that flourishing of Information
Technology outsourcing, the increasingly widespread of finance and accounting information,
medical outsourcing, and the emergence of knowledge outsourcing remains as the promising
niche within the broader concept of business process outsourcing.
Even though, outsourcing practices have been embraced with the usual favor and the
broadening of their span has certainly clashed with some pressure internal and external
stakeholders. However, it is also found that described enhanced complexity of suppler-customer
relations in outsourcing calls for an intensive reflection on its definition as well as the actual span
of action. The proposed study focuses on how outsourcing business practices influence the
operation of the organizations that rely on such practices. The proposed research also
investigates the challenges that organizations face while incorporating such practices in the
business. The proposed research is conducted based on some related theme associated with
business outsourcing such as offshore outsourcing, the drawbacks associated with the usual
practice of outsourcing. Some particular objectives have been formed based on which the
research is supposed to be conducted. The research includes a set of techniques that will be used