r (Examining the ins and outsa, 2000). Outsourcing can significantly reduce a number of costs, including those for employee training, benefits, and technology acquisition and maintenance, (Singh, 2003). This being the case, it is highly likely that more and more companies like British Telecom will begin to outsource selected functions related to IT.
Hill (2003) has noted that the international business arena is one in which the barriers to doing business abroad or in multiple locales simultaneously have been reduced if not entirely eliminated. Hill (2003) also commented that the globalization of the economy, coupled with the reliance of firms on IT to deliver products and services and to conduct business, are driving the outsourcing movement. In any examination of international management, it is all but impossible to avoid recognition of the fact t hat globalization is leading to the creation of new business arrangements, among which outsourcing is prominent.
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