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Offshoring of Knowledge Intensive Business Services: From Outsourcing to (Global) Open Innovation
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 2:00PM - 5:00PM at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Convention Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> in 211A
Organizer: Silvia Massini; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Manchester</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Presenters: Tim Devinney; AGSM-Australian School of Business; Jeremy Howells; Manchester Business School; Martin Kenney; U. of California, Davis; Arie Y. Lewin; Duke U. ; Andrea Prencipe; U. G. d'Annunzio; Jeanne Beyer; Objectiva Software Solutions; Sam Kogan; GEN3 Partners
This PDW will debate a research agenda on offshoring of knowledge intensive business service, such as R&D, engineering processes, product design including software design. It will discuss the nature of innovative activities that companies offshore, strategies and challenges of offshoring KIBS, (e.g., models, locations, coordination issues), the evolution of service providers and destination countries. Four fundamental questions will be debated: (1) What kind of innovative activities are companies offshoring, routinized or high value adding tasks? (2) Do companies learn how to leverage knowledge from offshored activities, how to manage complexity due to increasing scale and scope of offshoring and move up the value chain of tasks offshored? (3) What are the main challenges of offshoring knowledge intensive/high value adding activities remotely? (4) How are service providers and locations evolving as a response to the increasing demand from foreign clients and competition from foreign service providers? It gathers together academics and practitioners sharing their knowledge from research and first-hand experience.
Pre-Registration is not necessary, but you are kindly invited to contact Silvia Massini if you are interested in participating.
Dr. Silvia Massini
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Technology Management
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