Proceedings of International Conference on Business, Management and Economics
Year: 2018
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/icbme.2018.12.25
Reasons and Risks of Outsourcing in Business
Beyza Erer
ABSTRACT:
Nowadays, the increasing development of globalization and technology and the demands ofnon-limiting growth of the businesses have enabled the competitive environment to gain aneffective structure. In such an environment, many businesses benefit from different management strategies in order to sustain their activities, take their place in the world marketand compete in this market. One of the different strategies that businesses benefit from is outsourcing. Outsourcing is a management strategy based on enterprises focusing on their core capabilities and transferring their non-core business activities to other specialized businesses.Initially, outsourcing is referenced only with the aim of lowering costs but later it has become an increasingly popular management strategy depending on various reasons. The strategy of outsourcing which are becoming more and more important with each passing day, provides anumber of risks while providing significant advantages. In this context, this study aims to explain how to outsourcing strategy which has an application area around the world, has develope ,why businesses use this strategy and what are the possible risks that this strategy carries.
Keywords: Outsourcing, Core Competencies, Risks of Using Outsourcing.