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The practice of offshoring is not a new phenomenon. It has been utilized and hotly debated for many years and has only seemed to pick up momentum from both sides as the concept of globalization spreads. As Mary K. Coulter describes on page 41 in her 2005 textbook, Strategic Management in Action, “Potential markets are found all the way from small villages in China to Johannesburg to Moscow to Mexico City, and all points in between.” Globalization knows no borders. Businesses large and small are now able to compete with one another in the world market. Coulter goes on to point out that globalization not only means that businesses are able to expand their product reach, but they are also able to access vast “financial, material, human and knowledge resources” and that they “should be acquired wherever it strategically makes sense to do so.”
There are various reasons domestic firms consider and ultimately choose to offshore part or all of their business functions.......

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