Seminar Overview
Outsourcing and Offshoring Business Services: Theoretical Perspectives and Global Trends
The first Seminar of the series of events organised by the RSA Research Network on ‘Regional Development and the Changing Geography of Outsourcing Business Services in an Enlarged Europe’ took place at the University of the West of Scotland in Paisley on 4-5th of September 2008.
The Seminar proved to be a very successful event and was attended by a diverse audience including established academics, young researchers and practitioners.
The full report on the Seminar will soon be available on this website. In the meantime the papers presented at the event can be downloaded from the section below.
Keynote addresses:
Dr Ross Brown (Scottish Enterprise): The changing nature of FDI: What does outsourcing and offshoring mean for Scotland?
Dr Zoltán Gál (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Future Bangalores? The increasing role of Central and Eastern Europe in financial service offshoring
Papers:
Auréliane Beauclair (RSA Development Manager): Regional Studies Association: its contribution to scholarly endeavour
Dr Proinnsias Breathnach (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): Explaining the geography of foreign direct investment in export services
Dr Patrick Collins & Prof Seamus Grimes (National University of Ireland, Galway): The growing significance of Ireland as a centre for internationally traded services
Dr Graham Hollinshead & Prof Jane Hardy (University of Hertfordshire): Outsourcing, off-shoring and company restructuring: a home country perspective
Prof Robert Huggins (University of Wales Institute) & Jonathan Day: European trends in the outsourcing and growth of knowledge-intensive business services
Dr Katerina Maršiková & Dr Petra Rydvalová (Technical University of Liberec): Project management approach as a key factor of successful outsourcing implementation: theoretical aspects and empirical evidence in the Czech Republic
Dr Kathy Pain (Loughborough University): Looking for the ‘core’ in knowledge globalisation: the need for a new research agenda
Dr Magdolna Sass (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Global trends in business service movements: the role of East Central Europe, with special emphasis on related methodological problems
Dr Mariusz Sokolowicz (University of Lódz): From an industrial city to BPO destination centre: a fantasy or real trajectory? The case of Lódz (Poland)
Summary of themes and issues raised - an introduction to the Roundtable Discussion (Dr Grzegorz Micek, Jagiellonian University)