1st Edition

Outsourcing in European Emerging Economies Territorial Embeddedness and Global Business Services

Edited By Łukasz Mamica Copyright 2021
    240 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    240 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Drawing on a range of European cases, this edited volume analyses the offshoring and outsourcing of foreign companies, with a focus on territorial embeddedness.

    The book opens by developing a theoretical framework and then presents a range of international case studies exploring the experiences of the service hub cities of Brno, Bratislava, Budapest, Krakow, and Prague. Attention is also given to internal and external determinants of embeddedness, with chapters on the employee perspective, the Fintech industry, corporate social responsibility, and the role of universities.

    This volume will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in regional economics, economic geography, innovation studies, industrial economics, European economics, and international business.

    List of figures

    List of tables

    Notes on contributors

    Preface

    Acknowledgements

    PART I

    Theoretical aspects of the embeddedness of outsourcing and offshoring processes

    1 The theory and evolution of outsourcing and offshoring processes

    PIOTR KOPYCIŃSKI AND ŁUKASZ MAMICA

    2 Globalisation trends in the service industries: consequences for the international division of labour

    TOMASZ GEODECKI

    3 The determinants of territorial embeddedness of offshoring and outsourcing firms: a conceptualisation of the problem

    PAWEŁ BIAŁYNICKI-BIRULA AND AGNIESZKA PACUT

    4 The importance of new technologies for business development: automation and robotisation in the services industry

    TOMASZ GEODECKI AND JAKUB GŁOWACKI

    5 Impact sourcing: theoretical analysis in relation to corporate social responsibility in a globalised market

    MONIKA MAZUR-BUBAK

    6 The development of European business services value chains: the perspective of emerging economies

    TOMASZ GEODECKI

    PART II

    Dimensions of embeddedness in the outsourcing, offshoring, and global business services sector: international case studies

    7 Bratislava: the development and specific features of outsourcing, offshoring, and the global business services sector

    MIROSLAV ŠIPIKAL AND OLIVER RAFAJ

    8 Budapest: the development and specific features of outsourcing, offshoring, and the global business services sector

    ZOLTÁN GÁL AND ROBERT MARCINIAK

    9 The development and specific features of outsourcing, offshoring, and knowledge intensive business services in the Czech Republic: the case of Prague and Brno

    STANISLAV KLAZAR, FRANTIŠEK OCHRANA, MICHAL PLAČEK, AND GABRIELA VACEKOVÁ

    10 Krakow vs. other Polish destinations of outsourcing, offshoring, and the global business services sector

    JANUSZ GÓRECKI

    11 The degree of embeddedness of the business process outsourcing sector in the Visegrad Group in the context of its current development trends and case study findings

    MARCIN ZAWICKI

    PART IIIa

    Internal determinants of the embeddedness of the outsourcing and offshoring sector

    12 The embeddedness of firms and employees in Central Europe: Krakow as an offshoring and outsourcing centre

    PIOTR KOPYCIŃSKI

    13 The importance of Fintech’s development for the embeddedness of outsourcing and offshoring firms

    JAKUB GŁOWACKI

    PART IIIb

    External determinants of the embeddedness of the outsourcing and offshoring sector

    14 The importance of corporate social responsibility in the embedding of the offshore services industry in Krakow

    AGNIESZKA PACUT

    15 The role of universities in the embeddedness of business process outsourcing

    ŁUKASZ MAMICA

    16 The role of public authorities and other business environment institutions in the territorial embedding of offshore firms in Krakow

    PAWEŁ BIAŁYNICKI-BIRULA

    Afterword

    ŁUKASZ MAMICA

    Index

    Biography

    Łukasz Mamica is an associate professor and the Head of Department of Public Economics, Cracow University of Economics, Poland. He is the coordinator of Research Area Industrial Policy and Development at the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE). He has co-authored all the regional innovation strategies for the Malopolska region and has served as an expert in several projects funded by the OECD, the European Union, Polish government departments, and regional administration units.