4 AprilMay 2006 Outsourcing/Chakrabarti HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Department

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April-May 2006 Outsourcing/Chakrabarti
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Doctoral Seminar on Outsourcing of Business Processes and
Organizational Networks
Professor Alok Chakrabarti
E-mail: [email protected] April- June 2006
Objective: Outsourcing of Business Processes in various industries
have become an important development on a global basis. This process
has affected both manufacturing and service sectors. The objective of
this seminar will be to examine the various issues involved in the
process. We will be interested in both micro and macro perspectives as
this has generated an intense political debate in the developed world.
Details of the course:
The representative issues that we will examine are:
1.
Impact of outsourcing on jobs and types of outsourcing
2.
Impact of outsourcing on the nature of jobs and skill development
3.
Spill-over effect of outsourcing
4.
Knowledge outsourcing: strategies and pitfalls
5.
How can one make effective outsourcing decisions
6.
Outsourcing in the healthcare delivery
Grading: Participants needing a grade will need to write a paper
covering some aspect of outsourcing.
Schedule
Session 1 APRIL 5 Darius Ornston, Political Renegotiation,
Institutional Recombination and Economic Restructuring: Finnish
Technology Policy in Comparative Perspective
Discussion question: How has outsourcing helped or hindered the
Finnish economy? What should be the research agenda?
Session 2: APRIL 12 John Zyzman: Production in the Digital era.
Discussion question: How has the manufacturing model changed with the
digital technology? How would the western economy be affected?
Session 3: APRIL 19 Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey, Timothy Sturgeon, The
governance of global value chains, Review of International Political
Economy, Vol. 12 No. 1 February 2005, pp 78-104
S. Seshasai and Amar Gupta, Global Outsourcing of Professional
services, MIT Working paper January 2004
Discussion question: How has the value chain for production and
services have changed?
Session 4: APRIL 26 Martin Neil Baily and Robert z. Lawrence- Don’t
blame trade for US Job losses- McKinsey Quarterly 2005 Issue 1
Bhagwati, Jagdish, Arvind Panagariya and T.N,.Srinivasan, Muddles over
outsourcing, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 18 No. 4 Fall 2004
Discussion question: Does outsourcing hurt jobs? What are the economic
arguments?
Session 5: MAY 5 Nitin Nohria, Feed R&D or Farm it out? Harvard
Business Review July August 2005
Globalization of R&D , Research Technology Management 2000
Discussion question: What are the major issues related to outsourcing
of R&D?
Session 6: MAY 10 Jeremy Howell, Research and technology outsourcing,
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management Vol 11, No.1 1999
S. Feinberg and Anil Gupta, Knowledge spill-overs and the assignment
of R&D responsibilities to foreign subsidiaries, Strategic Management
Journal Vol. 25 pp823-845 2000
James Brian Quinn, Strategic Outsourcing: leveraging Knowledge
Capabilities, Sloan Management Review Summer 1999
Discussion question: What are the main implications of knowledge
management
Session 7 MAY 16 ? ICRA Indian BPO Industry
Guest Lecture by DN Ghosh, Chairman of ICRA
Session 8: MAY 24 Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong , Our
Outsourced Future
David Linder, Transformational outsourcing, Sloan Management Review,
Winter 2004 Vol. 45 No. 2
Discussion question: What should be the strategic issues in
outsourcing?
Session 9: MAY 31 Eric A. Walden, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND
CANNIBALIZATION IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING CONTRACTS, MIS
Quarterly, Dec2005, Vol. 29, Issue 4
Discussion question: What are the IPR issues in outsourcing?
SESION 10 JUNE 7 Discussion of student research.
LIST OF READINGS
Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong , Our Outsourced Future
Darius Ornston, Political Renegotiation, Institutional Recombination
and Economic Restructuring: Finnish Technology Policy in Comparative
Perspective
John Zysman, Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Service Automation:
Are Capacities for Innovation At Risk? Notes toward a BRIE/CITRIS
Research Project ©Brie March 6, 2004
Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey, Timothy Sturgeon, The governance of
global value chains, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.
12 No. 1 February 2005, pp 78-104
S. Seshasai and Amar Gupta, Global Outsourcing of Professional
services, MIT Working paper January 2004
ICRA, Indian BPO Industry
Jeremy Howell, Research and technology outsourcing, Technology
Analysis and Strategic Management Vol 11, No.1 1999
Globalization of R&D , Research Technology Management 2000
S. Feinberg and Anil Gupta, Knowledge spill-overs and the assignment
of R&D responsibilities to foreign subsidiaries, Strategic Management
Journal Vol. 25 pp823-845 2000
James Brian Quinn, Strategic Outsourcing: leveraging Knowledge
Capabilities, Sloan Management Review Summer 1999
David W. Parker and Katie A. Russell, Outsourcing and intra/inter
supply chain dynamics: Strategic Management Issues, Journal of Supply
Chain Management Fall 2004 Vol. 40 No. 4
Martin Neil Baily and Robert z. Lawrence- Don’t blame trade for US Job
losses- McKinsey Quarterly 2005 Issue 1
David Linder, Transformational outsourcing, Sloan Management Review,
Winter 2004 Vol. 45 No. 2
Nitin Nohria, Feed R&D or Farm it out? Harvard Business Review July
August 2005
Bhagwati, Jagdish, Arvind Panagariya and T.N,.Srinivasan, Muddles over
outsourcing, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 18 No. 4 Fall 2004
Eric A. Walden, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CANNIBALIZATION IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OUTSOURCING CONTRACTS, MIS Quarterly, Dec2005,
Vol. 29, Issue 4