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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

88 Citations2002
P. Adler
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The vendor rents its skills, knowledge, technology, service, and manpower for an agreed-upon price and period to perform functions that the client no longer wants to perform.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION In the late 1980s, the information systems trade press first coined the term “outsourcing” to describe the growing reliance by firms on outside providers for on-going IT support. Today, the term is more broadly defined as contracting for any of a company’s recurring internal activities with outside providers. In essence, the vendor rents its skills, knowledge, technology, service, and manpower for an agreed-upon price and period to perform functions that the client no longer wants to perform.