[IP] more on Now, a course on outsourcing: MIT shows the way]
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:37:15 -0800
From: Jamus Jerome Lim <jamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [IP] more on ] Now, a course on outsourcing: MIT shows the way]
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, 'Ip' <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Dave,
> PLEASE! Stop confusing "outsourcing"-- which has been a common and
> generally-accepted/acceptable business practice, probably since the
> beginning of "business" ... with "OFFSHORING"!
For the record, the international trade literature generally defines
"outsourcing" broadly in terms of: The use of intermediate factors of
production from an external foreign country for a domestically-produced
product. For example, the use of Taiwan-produced semiconductors and
Singapore-produced HDDs in a Dell computer assembled in Austin, Texas.
More narrowly, the definition involves the use of intermediate factors
for the production for domestically-produced products that are
*subsequently exported*.
The relocation of jobs from a domestic plant to a foreign plant
("offshoring")would be turn up in statistics as simply international
trade in goods (since the goods produced in a foreign country arrive
back at home in the form of imports). There is also a distinction
between a U.S. firm deciding to build a plant in a foreign country -
this is just foreign direct investment, or FDI.
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Jamus Jerome Lim
jamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.internationaleconomics.net
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