Offshoring Challenge

Dr. Torben Pedersen is professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. He has published over 100 articles and books concerning the managerial and strategic aspects of globalization and more than 25 teaching cases. His research interests are located at the interface between strategy and international management and with a strong interest in knowledge management, offshoring/outsourcing, and subsidiary entrepreneurship. He is currently co-editor of Global Strategy Journal. Dr. Lydia Bals is head of the department Procurement Solutions (e.g. Procurement Strategy, Risk Management, Sustainability, Organization and Processes) at Bayer CropScience's Global Procurement. Prior to that she worked as a Project Manager at Bayer Business Consulting, Germany. She is a visiting scholar at the Department of Strategic Management & Globalization at Copenhagen Business School since 2008. Her research focuses on globalization of R&D, (offshore) outsourcing of services and sustainable sourcing. She obtained her doctoral degree from EBS European Business School, Germany and made research visits at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, United States.Dr. Peter D. Ørberg Jensen is associate professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. Peter D. Ørberg Jensen’s research is related to various aspects of firm internationalization. His research specializes on the global sourcing of advanced and high-value services and technical functions, and the strategic, organizational and contractural aspects of global sourcing. His career track record includes 11 years in business consulting and a 3-year assignment at United Nations DevelopmentProgramme. His research is published in highly ranked journals, and he serves as an academic reviewer for a range of international journals in the business and management fields.Marcus M. Larsen is assistant professor at Department of Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. His research interests are related to the organizational design of offshoring, and particularly on how the relationship between complexity and learning influences decision making and performance. His research is published in Strategic Management Journal and Global Strategy Journal. He has also published a number teaching cases.

• Exploring Layers of Complexity in Offshoring Research and Practice.- Offshoring Activities Impact A Company’s Business Model: The Case of BBVA and Banco Santander.- Entrepreneurial Globalization: Lessons from the Offshoring Experiences of European Firms.- Tracking Offshoring and Outsourcing Strategies in Global Supply Chains.- Exploring Processes and Capabilities in Offshoring Intermediation.- Offshoring And Outsourcing Of Customer-Oriented Business Processes: An international transaction value model.- Offshoring White-Collar Work: An Explorative Investigation of the Processes and Mechanisms in Two Danish Manufacturing Firms.- SMEs De- Or Reorganizing Knowledge When Offshoring?.- The Dual Role of Subsidiary Autonomy in Intra-MNC Knowledge Transfer.- The Challenge of R&D Offshoring: Implications for Firm Productivity.- Industrial R&D Centers in Emerging Markets: Motivations, Barriers and Success Factors.- Towards a Flexible Breathing Organization: R&D Outsourcing at Bayer.- The Service Offshoring Code: Location Efficiencies for German Firms.- The Exit Advantage: Overcoming Barriers to National Exit.- Climate Change and the Offshoring Decision: Risk Evaluation and Management.- Do Expectations Match Reality When Firms Consider The Risks Of Offshoring? A Comparison of Risk Assessment by Firms with and Without Offshoring Experience.- Offshoring of Innovation: Global Innovation Networks in the Danish Biotech Industry.- Global Operations Coevolution: Hidden Effects and Responses.- Transformations of Mobile Telecommunications Supplier Networks.- Broadening the Conceptual andPhenomenological Scope of Offshoring.- The Complexity of Offshoring. A Comparative Study of Mexican Maquiladora Plants and Indian Outsourcing Offices from an Institutional-Prospect Theory Perspective.