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Cloud Computing  Jan 22  Comment 
If you take the literary meaning of the words off-shore and distributed then it would appear that off-shore is indeed a special case of distributed. But, if go by the de facto understanding then off-shoring is definitely not a special case of...
Cintas: If it Walks Like a Slow-Motion LBO, and Talks Like One . . .?
Forbes  Mar 23  Comment 
Renting uniforms to blue-collar workers might seem a dead-end business, given the decline of manufacturing, off-shoring of millions of low-wage jobs and the persistence of high U.S. unemployment.
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THIS week's interesting economics research: • Contributions of economists to the housing-price bubble (Martha Starr) • When fast growing economies slow down (Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, and Kwanho Shin) • Large employment...
Pharma MNCs Eye India for off-shoring CRO allied services
Business Standard  Jul 9  Comment 
Not just for clinical trials, but India is also emerging as an attractive destination for allied services related to clinical research. According to a recent FICCI- Ernst & Young study, the Indian allied service market is growing at a compounded...
Union says jobs at risk as ANZ extends off-shoring
Sydney Morning Herald  Apr 6  Comment 
ANZ will extend offshoring to the Philippines where the bank plans to open an operations hub in Manila.
Another UK hospital moots offshoring work to India
The Economic Times  Mar 26  Comment 
A major hospital in the north-east England town of Warrington is the latest British health centre to consider off-shoring medical transcription to India to cut costs, sparking a welter of protest from union leaders.




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Off-shoring is moving business functions across national borders, typically from the country where a business's primary market is located to a lower-cost country. Unlike out-sourcing, off-shoring does not imply that one business contracts another to manage the function that is off-shored. Many U.S. manufacturers own and operate plants off-shore.

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